I saw some posts around the power of vibe coding or AI tooli…

I saw some posts around the power of vibe coding or AI tooling from social media (outside of tech), they claim that anyone can build, simple and easy, it’s early and eventually everyone could be professionals.

My first impression is really interesting, http://xiaonei.com (校内网), not sure if early Facebook also supported it, at the time it supports an iFrame that everyone could code to customize their homepage to have some fancy look. Quite similar that every college student felt that they could be CS experts — just build websites. It ends up the most technical thing majority could do is to explore the good looking templates and then copying paste exactly the same, but when everyone copying the most popular template, the specialty went away, silently no one is doing it anymore.

I hated CS in the first 2-3 years after graduation with B.S. degree, I spent a week to locate a bug that I used a Chinese input dot instead of English input dot, shamefully, someone helped me to find it. There were so many times I questioned how and why I chose this major. I had to fail hard and then crawled out.

I never believed that normal people would be engineers by having good tools. Just look at hardware engineering.