The Lore Of A Vibe Coder

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The Lore Of A Vibe Coder

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The AI hype cycle speedrun, perfectly captured in four stages of clown makeup. Started with the promise that AI would revolutionize everything, got seduced into thinking you could skip fundamentals and just prompt your way to a senior dev salary. Then reality hit: those "free" AI tools either got paywalled harder than Adobe Creative Cloud or started running slower than a nested loop in Python. Now you're sitting there with zero transferable skills, a LinkedIn full of AI buzzwords, and the crushing realization that "prompt engineer" isn't actually a career path. The kicker? While you were vibing, the devs who actually learned their craft are still employed. Turns out you can't Ctrl+Z your way out of not knowing how a for-loop works.

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