"If vibecoding is what people say it is, the world should be drowning in vibecoded artifacts right now"

It is. Look at GitHub repos. Look at the r/selfhosting subreddit. Look at the r/macapps subreddit.

That doesn't mean people are "vibecoding Photoshop." Maybe LLMs will eventually be good enough that you can make a Photoshop without ever looking at any of the code, but they aren't right now.

"And the accusers never want to address that, because addressing it means admitting the accusation doesn't hold up."

What accusation?

This article reads like an LLM wrote it.

Yes, we are drowning in slop, while also still paying for all the same tools we did pre AI because the vibeslop doesn't cut it.