> I have a co-worker who's basically not a programmer, but got multiple implementations of applications working sooner than our dev teams

Deployed to production, right?

Right??

(I’m just kidding, of course it’s only on their machine, no different than Excel 5 years ago)

> architect and orchestrate the coding, but 'language' isn't a barrier anymore.

Never was the barrier.

Here's the kicker: The devs spent nearly 5 months on a solution, and it ended up being so crap it was abandoned. The multiple vibe-coded solutions were all better.

Of course language was the barrier, that's part of why it was always hard to hire people. It takes years to get good at a particular language, and most people are idiots from bootcamps who learned a single framework.