Vibe Coding is OVER. | by Michal Malewicz - Freedium

Take a look at these three landing pages. What do they have in common? And most importantly: will you remember any of them 30 minutes from now? All were made extremely fast.

It's functional, but soulless.

Chances ANYBODY needs your brilliant idea are extremely slim. People just don't care.

Then flat design, systemic components and figma happened.

It's optimization eating its own tail. People with no skill can do things faster now, and these things look passable at first glance. So we get more things being done.

They had no foundation. No eye for design. Or better yet. No love for design and no interest to learn.

The slop is everywhere once you know how to spot it.

It's the SaaS landing page with the gradient text hero that says "Revolutionize Your Workflow" followed by three feature cards with Lucide icons, a testimonials section with headshots from obvious stock photos, and a pricing table with three tiers where the middle one is highlighted as "Most Popular."

It's the chatbot interface that looks exactly like every other chatbot interface because the AI trained on every chatbot interface and spits out an average

The tool doesn't matter. The person using it matters. A great designer with Figma from 2019 will destroy a mediocre designer with the latest AI-powered design tool from 2026.

People save prompts for no reason. They bookmark, save and then never come back to them. Many lose the ability to describe things themselves because they're so used to grabbing pre-made assembly instructions.

Know WHAT you're doing

When planning a new product, write out what problem it solves. Then what the competitors are doing. Then what are the potential issues you can face when building. Plan every little detail.

You need to see Most people don't have an eye for design. Mostly because of lack of interest. Lack of critical thinking. And not seeing lots of designs for a long time. Not exploring

Fundamentals don't lie Even if you plan on just vibing mini apps with AI, you need to learn design fundamentals. Typography, spacing, hierarchy, color theory. Understand why something works, and something else doesn't even if they look very similar at first glance.

Own the decisions Don't outsource critical thinking to AI. Have it execute a plan, but don't ask it to write the plan for you.

Be aware of the economics Shipping fast is already happening anyway. But you don't need to 10x. Go 2x but with extreme polish, attention to detail, security, code quality. Don't go for lazy prototypes and call them products.

Burning those credits is what the AI companies want. So they will push vibe-coding and vibe-building as a way of life.

It's not about people using AI vs people NOT using AI. That's boring.

It's about craft vs. convenience. The tools are neutral. The intent behind how you use them matters.

Your vibe-coded app isn't worthless because you used AI. It's worthless because you never really put much effort.

When everything looks the same, true craft stands out.

The window for "it works, was fast and cheap" is closing.

Consumers are getting better at spotting slop. The founders who build real businesses will be the ones who took the time to learn, who noticed how AI got things wrong.