Vibe coding—a term popularized in 2025—refers to a programming approach where developers rely on large language models (LLMs) to generate software from natural language prompts, often without deeply reviewing or manually writing the underlying code themselves.

This “flow-first” style of coding is increasingly visible across tech communities and tools, but it’s becoming clear that its suitability depends heavily on context, purpose, and risk tolerance. Below, we explore why many professionals remain skeptical about vibe coding for critical systems, yet why it’s capturing the imagination of game developers.

What Is Vibe Coding?

At its core, vibe coding shifts the programmer’s role from manually typing code to guiding, testing, and iterating via prompts to AI coding agents. Instead of writing functions and classes, developers describe desired behavior and refine outputs through conversation with the AI model.

Proponents liken it to creative rapid prototyping—where experimentation and iteration precede deep engineering …

In the late 1990s, the "Open Source" revolution was driven by a simple economic reality: code was expensive to write but cheap to copy. Today, we are standing on the precipice of a new era where Agentic AI—systems that can plan, code, and execute tasks autonomously—is pushing the marginal cost of writing code toward zero.

This shift begs a critical question: If an AI agent can generate a custom software solution for you in seconds, do we still need the shared commons of Open Source?

The answer is yes, but the reason is changing. We are moving from an era where we open-source code to share effort, to an era where we open-source context to share control.

The Traditional bargain: Why We Open Source

To understand the future, we must look at the incentives that built the current ecosystem.

For Individuals:

• Reputation & Portfolio: A GitHub profile is …

Growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, many of us were raised on Japanese animations filled with intelligent robots. From Astro Boy to Gundam, from friendly helpers to thoughtful machines struggling with morality, these stories shaped our expectations of the future. Robots were not just metal tools; they had minds, personalities, and sometimes even souls. As kids, we genuinely believed that by the time we became adults, such robots would be walking beside us in everyday life.

That future, however, took far longer than we imagined.

More than forty years later, something remarkable has finally happened: we have built a kind of “brain” for machines. Artificial intelligence—especially in the last decade—has made dramatic progress. Machines can now recognize speech, understand images, translate languages, drive cars, diagnose diseases, and even hold conversations that feel surprisingly human. In many ways, the intelligence we once saw only in animation is now real. …

For anyone who started their tech journey in the late 1990s, you remember the grind.

Back then, "keeping up" wasn’t just a habit; it was a full-time job. I remember spending long nights with thick O’Reilly books (the ones with the woodcut animals on the covers), subscribing to monthly print magazines, and scouring early blogs just to stay relevant. We lived in a constant state of anxiety that if we blinked, we’d miss a major shift in operating systems, a new framework, or a revolution in system management.

For decades, this was the tax we paid for working in technology. To be a capable engineer, you had to be a walking encyclopedia. You had to preload knowledge into your brain just in case you might need it. It was exhausting.

The Turning Point

About two or three years ago, I felt that heavy burden suddenly lift.

We entered the age …

A relative called me recently, clearly stressed.

She runs an online business on a WordPress + WooCommerce website, but something felt off.

She explained that someone else was “handling the site” for her — an admin she had hired a long time ago. Over time, his salary kept increasing. Any tiny change? New bill. A small feature request? Another invoice. She felt trapped but didn’t know exactly why.

So I asked her a few very simple questions:

• Do you have access to your hosting panel?
• Where is your domain registered?
• Do you have the admin password for your own website?

Her answer was short and worrying:

“No. None of that.”

At that moment, the real problem became obvious.

This wasn’t about WordPress.

It wasn’t even about WooCommerce.

And it definitely wasn’t about AI.

It was about ownership.

The Hidden Cost of Not Knowing the Basics

When you don’t control the …

Short answer: estimates vary by method, but using task-based measures we find two consistent signals:

(1) a relatively small share of jobs are classified as high-risk routine jobs (single-digit to low-teens percent in many OECD analyses), while

(2) a much larger share of work hours or tasks — often measured as the portion of time spent on repeatable, automatable tasks — can be automated with current or near-term technology (estimates range around ~40–57% of work hours). That gap matters: much routine work is concentrated in tasks inside jobs (not entire jobs), so AI and automation will reshape task mixes inside roles rather than simply “replace” whole occupations.

1) What researchers mean by “routine” — and why measurement matters

“Routine” is a task-level concept. Economists separate work into tasks (e.g., data entry, inspection, creative problem solving, interpersonal negotiation). A job becomes “routine-intensive” when many of its tasks are repetitive, rule-based, and …

In the age of YouTube University and TikTok tutorials, the default mode of learning has shifted rapidly from text to video. But is this shift making us smarter, or just more entertained?

When you strip away personal preference and look at the cognitive mechanics, the answer isn't a simple "better" or "worse"—it is a trade-off between information density and cognitive ease.

Here is what the research says about how your brain processes a page versus a pixel.

1. Speed and Information Density: Text Wins

If your goal is to acquire the maximum amount of raw information in the minimum amount of time, reading is statistically superior.

• The Speed Gap: The average adult reads at 250–300 words per minute (wpm). In contrast, the average speaking rate in an educational video is 150–160 wpm. Even if you watch a video at 2x speed (300 wpm), you are merely catching …

I have been integrating AI into my coding workflow for over two years. In this field, two years is a lifetime. I’ve seen the "wow" moment of the first GitHub Copilot suggestions, and I’ve seen the limitations of early LLMs that hallucinated libraries that didn't exist.

But something shifted in the last few weeks.

I’ve been deep-diving into the recent updates of Cursor IDE and Antigravity IDE, and the conclusion is inescapable: we have moved past the era of "smart text prediction." We are entering the era of the Autonomous Engineer.

The Shift: From "Start" to "Plan"

Just a month ago, AI Agents were fantastic at the "Greenfield" phase. If you gave them a pristine directory and a very specific, hand-held walkthrough, they could spin up a new project faster than any human. But you had to be the architect; they were just the bricklayers.

The recent updates …

The development of human researchers represents one of the most costly and time-consuming investments in the modern knowledge economy, yet paradoxically, scientific advancement continues to be hindered by severe researcher shortages. This critical challenge is reshaping how institutions, governments, and organizations approach scientific discovery—and artificial intelligence is offering transformative solutions.

The Staggering Cost of Creating a Researcher

Developing a researcher requires an extraordinary financial commitment that extends far beyond tuition fees. The total cost of PhD training varies significantly by geography and discipline, but the figures are consistently staggering. In the United States, a doctoral degree costs approximately $49,500 per year, with students typically requiring 5.7 years to complete their degrees. This translates to a total investment of approximately $280,000–$396,000 per researcher.

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Total cost of PhD research training varies significantly across countries, ranging from approximately $140,000 to $307,000, with the United States averaging $49,500 annually

The investment …

The progression of human work and leisure across the past two centuries reveals a complex narrative that contradicts the utopian vision of technology liberating humanity from toil. While technological revolutions have promised progressively greater freedom from labor, the actual relationship between innovation and free time has proven far more intricate. Understanding this trajectory—from the manual economies of the early nineteenth century through the industrial transformation, the digital revolution, and into our current artificial intelligence era—provides crucial insight into how societies can genuinely advance toward lives where humans flourish as humans, not merely as economic units.

The Pre-Industrial Baseline: Surprising Leisure

Contrary to popular assumption, the period before industrialization was not one of ceaseless toil, at least not in the way we imagine. Medieval and early modern peasants worked considerably less than the narrative of perpetual drudgery suggests. Research into historical work patterns reveals that peasants worked approximately 150 to 175 …