You just want a quiet weekend where you don't think about code, maybe touch some grass, remember what sunlight feels like. But NOPE! The vibe coders are out here having their little Renaissance, building entire frameworks before breakfast because they "got tired of" literally everything. Can't even scroll Twitter without seeing someone announce they rebuilt React with 47 lines of code written in a new language they invented that morning. Meanwhile you're just trying to exist without your brain automatically refactoring the grocery store layout. The audacity of these people to be productive while you're seeking inner peace is truly unmatched.

The golden age of programming tutorials had people casually dropping "let's build a game engine from scratch" like it was a weekend project. Now? We're celebrating the monumental achievement of... configuring VS Code with the right color theme and extensions. The devolution is real. Back then, tutorials assumed you had a PhD in computer science and three lifetimes of free time. "Part 1 of 47: Implementing our custom memory allocator" was considered beginner-friendly. Today's tutorials are like "Step 1: Install Node. Step 2: Cry because of dependency conflicts. Step 3: There is no Step 3, you're still on Step 2." The shift reflects how the barrier to entry has lowered (good!) but also how we've become more focused on tooling than fundamentals (questionable!). Though to be fair, getting your IDE setup properly in 2024 with all the linters, formatters, and extensions IS basically rocket science.