Honestly, I thought the same until I started using it. As soon as you actually get into using it you are like "oh". I don't mean vibe coding, I mean using it like the tool it is (its a shitty junior/intermediate dev with a ton of knowledge who is way overeager but takes direction incredibly well). But you can have multiple of these devs working at the same time, constantly building what you want with no handoffs, no meetings, no arguments, no knowledge transfer. It can learn and get situated in your code instantly. It's fucking crazy. It isn't that it is some overlord replacement. It is more than it can instantly 10-20x the productivity of your best employees. Your best few employees do 60-80% of the work at most companies. We left one of our best guys alone for 6 weeks this year and he came back with a finished, shippable product that would have normally taken us about 2 years. Full test suites, integration tests, dev docs, guides, documents, architecture, bootstraps, onboarding flows, etc, all the kind of annoying little polish things that we hate spending time doing. It just makes it possible for senior devs to be insanely productive. I can tell you that our little company went from paying 0 dollars a year to usage fees being our biggest expense, and its worth it. I don't think it will last forever mostly because its going to move from being on the cloud to being mostly local on our computers where they can't charge per token. But this thing has legs.

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