I feel like I finally get to feel the designer’s pain when people arrive with their vibe-coded pile of garbage and I have to explain why it can’t just slide into the product.
It does something and it’s what the business wants. So what’s my problem?
I often hear comparisons to Web 1.0 (the bubble aspect, potential for change, etc).
As someone who lived and worked during that era, I don’t remember thinking “holy shit, if this ever gets released on the world at scale we’ll have serious problems”.
Maybe that was a lack of imagination and not thinking through what would actually happen to brick and mortar, the job market and so on. But it feels like this time is different. Or I’m just that much older.
It does something and it’s what the business wants. So what’s my problem?