It might turn out to be unsustainably expensive to vibe code all day. That it was so subsidized might have been the irrational exuberance, which arguably leaves a bait-and-switch hangover.

But the general idea of compressing every code example in existence into a predictive autocompleter and generative assistant will never go away.

It would be like coding without syntax highlighting, by choice. Sure, people did it when they had to, but not anymore. You could, but why?

Do I really feel better about myself for writing a slight variation on depth-first search by hand for the 80th time? Not really?