This came out of my own experience building and releasing an iOS application.
AI genuinely helped with many things during development, but I realised that the parts I enjoy most — architecture, problem solving, and building systems — are exactly the parts I don’t want to delegate.
AI is unlikely to make people like me, or most already established professionals, lazy.
But it absolutely could affect younger people who are still learning and building fundamentals.
That raises a pretty serious question about regulating AI usage in education, and it’s surprising how little attention that discussion still gets.
I don’t really vibe code either.
I work a 9-to-5 and still shipped my own app to the App Store.
Not sure why I’d want to speed things up if it takes away the enjoyment.
I see this as a temporary phase driven by AI hype.
In the long run, strong senior specialists — in design, development, and other IT fields — will likely be more valuable than ever.
Meanwhile, those who rely entirely on AI without developing fundamentals may never reach that level.
AI isn’t really capable of creating truly complex solutions or top-tier UI/UX — it mostly recombines existing ideas.
So it’s probably better to focus on your craft and avoid burnout — that’s what will matter.
I think all of this has a dark future. And this can be argued based on how AI works.
AI systems look at code on the internet that was written by humans. This is smart, clean code. And they learn from it. What they produce — unreadable spaghetti code — is the maximum they can squeeze out of the best code written by humans.
In the near future, AI-generated code will flood the internet, and AI will start training on its own code. On the other hand, juniors will forget how to write good code.
And when these two factors come together in the near future, I honestly don’t know what will happen to the industry.
Big tech is inflating the AI bubble.
Because of that, I find it hard to fully trust these kinds of claims — especially from complex systems like Google.