alt Hacker NewsI vibecoded an app for my business and didn’t need any engineers and it is currently in use for our customers.
I think this is great for everyone to be a developer, the gatekeeping has now been removed and we will see a creative explosion of apps that everyone can build.
The security and maintenance aspect of apps is just a claude skill away to be a solved problem.
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I think you overestimate the ability of AI to write perfectly secure apps. Humans can't do it, and AI is trained on their work.
> the gatekeeping has now been removed
Nobody gatekept anything. The software, tools, knowledgebase (MIT, Coursera, etc) were always there. It was a choice. Some of us chose it, rest didn't for whatever reason.
> gatekeeping has now been removed
Who was preventing you from learning how to do it yourself and then doing it?
Comments as short-sighted as this give me confidence in the future job security of people who actually know how to write software.
> the gatekeeping has now been removed
'Gatekeeping' being 'knowing'... nobody was stopping you from learning.
> The security and maintenance aspect of apps is just a claude skill away to be a solved problem.
Incredible joke. Got a good laugh from me.
> "The security and maintenance aspect of apps is just a claude skill away to be a solved problem."
To think that someone on Hacker News actually wrote this seriously in 2026, after a couple of decades of CVEs, security breaches, and data thefts being in the news every single week and after 50+ years of the industry experiencing how arduous software maintenance is. I doubt even Anthropic or OpenAI would be brave enough to say that.