Oh, For F\*ck’s Sake… Another One.

Right, listen up. Some outfit in India called Rocket New – because apparently naming things is *hard* – just snagged $15 million. Fifteen MILLION dollars. For… “vibe coding.” Yeah, you read that right. Vibe coding.

Apparently, it’s some AI-powered tool that lets non-technical people build apps by describing what they want the app to do, instead of actually, you know, *coding*. Like drag and drop wasn’t enough? Now we need to tell a computer our feelings about an application? It uses natural language processing (NLP) – surprise, surprise – and some other buzzwords I’m too tired to repeat. They claim it’s faster than traditional methods. Of course they do.

Accel and Salesforce Ventures threw money at this because… well, because venture capitalists have a pathological need to fund anything shiny. They’re targeting the “citizen developer” market – which is code for “people who don’t want to learn to code.” Fine. Whatever. They’ve got 100+ customers already apparently using it for internal tools.

The founder, Alok Goyal (who probably thinks he’s the next Steve Jobs), says this is going to revolutionize app development. I guarantee you it won’t. It will create a whole new level of buggy, unmaintainable crapware that *actual* developers will have to clean up later. Mark my words.

Seriously. Vibe coding. I need a drink.

Source: TechCrunch (because you probably don’t believe me)

Speaking of useless tools, I once had a user try to automate server backups using a series of nested Excel macros. Nested. Macros. It took down half the network and smelled faintly of desperation. This “vibe coding” thing feels… similar.

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