Vibe coding is effectively dead, and honestly, good riddance 👌.

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emember when "just prompt it" was the whole pitch? Early this year, a vibe-coded app called Moltbook leaked around 1.5 million authentication tokens and tens of thousands of user emails because the person who shipped it had no idea what the AI had actually written.

**It worked in the demo. For many last year, that was the entire QA process.**

And it’s not just one app. Reports this year suggest code churn is rising sharply while refactoring - the act of going back and actually understanding the mess, has dropped from a significant chunk of all changes to a small minority.

People are shipping things they can’t explain and hoping it holds.
I keep seeing the same take everywhere lately, and I think it’s finally right: AI didn’t kill coding. It killed the version of coding where you never read what you generated.

That’s exactly why Py works the way it does. It won’t just "fix your bug" for you. Ask it why your code broke, and it will explain the underlying concept, point you roughly where to look, throw a different example at you so you are not just copy-pasting, then ask you a question back. Annoying sometimes? Kind of. That’s the point, you’re the one closing the loop, not the model.
Learn Python from scratch in 2026.

**Nobody’s saying don’t use AI. Just don’t let it be the reason you never actually learn what your own code is doing. That’s how you end up being the next Moltbook**.