The WordPress comparison holds up, and there's a detail in it worth pulling out: WordPress made sites cheap to build, but the economy grew around what comes after the build: hosting, updates, plugins, someone to call when it breaks. I think the same split is coming for vibe-coded apps. Making the app is becoming a prompt; keeping it online, patched and trustworthy for a year is still work. That's where your trust point bites: nobody hands their kid's data to an app whose maker can't say where it runs or who maintains it.
Agreed. If anything, apps get stranger and more personal: fewer products for millions, more small ones for a few hundred people who share a very specific problem. Thanks for the piece.
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The WordPress comparison holds up, and there's a detail in it worth pulling out: WordPress made sites cheap to build, but the economy grew around what comes after the build: hosting, updates, plugins, someone to call when it breaks. I think the same split is coming for vibe-coded apps. Making the app is becoming a prompt; keeping it online, patched and trustworthy for a year is still work. That's where your trust point bites: nobody hands their kid's data to an app whose maker can't say where it runs or who maintains it.