The problem I'm seeing is not with vibe coding itself, although it is absolutely the LLMs that empower people to fall into the actual trap: Failing to do any research whatsoever into their market and subject area. They see one surface-level problem and instead of digging into the problem space to gain a deep understanding of what would make a solution good or bad... they just code. Vibe code, code by hand, somewhere in the middle, whatever - the current trend is to code first and ask questions later. Some people always did that, but these days it seems like everyone who has not built products before is doing it.

We're seeing it more and more. Someone whips out an app independently, launches it, then says, "How do I find users?", "Why does nobody use my app?" With the answer always being the same - they skipped the step of actually talking to potential users before coding.

So we see what is being described - lots of throwaway projects.