Vibe Coders vs Tutorial Ninjas

The AI race is here but some 'sharp boys' doing things the 'new way,' vs 'tutorial hell' loyalists.

For years, the standard advice for breaking into tech followed a rigid script. You buy a 40-hour Udemy course, build a generic todo list app, copy code line by line from a YouTube video, and call yourself a developer. That is the old way, and today, it is a fast track to nowhere. The developers stuck in this cycle are trapped in tutorial hell, endlessly preparing to build something but never actually creating anything original.

Enter the "vibe coders."

These are the sharp boys who skipped the rulebook. They do not spend months mastering syntax or...