AI Is Splitting Users Into Two Extremes: Vibe Coders vs Untraceable Power Players
RossPeili · reddit · 2026-10-23
A Reddit long-read argues AI splits users into two camps with no gray zone: those who only vibe-code with cloud AI and think they've peaked, and those who build their own systems, train local models on proprietary data, and exploit AI in ways the first group can't comprehend — including genuinely malicious uses like data theft and manipulating banking infrastructure.
Key points:
- Frontier labs' calls to slow AI aren't marketing; they target players who own unrestricted, untraceable, ungovernable AI and can abuse frontier models for training data and exploit pre-AI systems
- The internet analogy: every wave produced both Netflix viewers and credit-card thieves, but the capability gap between users has never been this extreme
- The real worry: by the time casual users start calling for protection from rogue AI in 20 years, it may have been happening for two decades
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