The Three Little Pigs always cracks me up. People who know nothing about something keep telling the wrong story about it. I've built my own straw-bale house, and it's more comfortable and more pleasant than the cinder-block houses I've lived in.

Same thing with vibe coding .

TLDR: Everyone is burying vibe coding in April 2026. Karpathy rebranded it as " agentic engineering ." 70% of builds stall at the demo , a number now repeated everywhere without anyone bothering to source it. The going diagnosis: the method is bad. I had to lay 1,880 bales of straw on my own house to figure out that everyone got the diagnosis wrong.

When I told my neighbors I was building my house in straw, I got the exact same monologue I get today about vibe coding. It burns. It won't hold. You're naive. Five years later the house is standing, and the same voices have moved one decade over to AI-generated code. Same sentences, different material.…