Day 2 of vibe coding in production: what breaks when adoption scales

<h2> Introduction: The Moment Manual Coding Became "Optional" </h2> <p>In January 2026, Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, made a statement that reverberated across

<p>A Python developer with "AI Solutions Architect" in their GitHub bio pushes 8,500 lines of eBPF Rust in a single commit. The commit author is "Blackwall AI." The

<p>$9.2 billion. That is what investors valued Cursor's parent company Anysphere at in September 2025, after a $400M Series B. Bolt.new hit $2.1B. Lovable raised at $180M.

<p>Snap just announced that AI agents generate over 65% of their new code. The same week, they laid off roughly 1,000 employees — 16% of their workforce. CEO Evan Spiegel shared

<blockquote> <p>Coding is not dying. It already died. You just didn’t attend the funeral.</p> </blockquote> <h2> ⚡ What is Anti-Gravity? </h2> <p>An internal Google IDE that turns

<h2> From "Prove It in Code" to "Prove It in Judgment" </h2> <p>For decades, credibility in software came from what you built with your own hands. Writing robust systems required

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/google-gemma-2026-05-06">Gemma 4 Challenge: Write About Gemma 4</a></em></p> <h3> Why I Wrote This </h3>

<p>You opened ChatGPT before Slack this morning.<br /><br /> Not for anything complicated. Just to figure out how to begin.</p> <p>That small move is already changing what