Matthew Yglesias: 'I Don't Want to Vibecode — I Want Companies to Use AI to Make Better Software for Me'

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Political commentator Matthew Yglesias offers a consumer-perspective counterpoint to the vibe coding movement: he'd rather professional software companies leverage AI coding assistance to deliver better, cheaper products than learn to code himself. Curated by Simon Willison, it crystallizes a growing sentiment that most people benefit from AI-assisted software development as consumers, not practitioners — a useful frame for builders thinking about their audience.