Vibe coding is a real career path now — here's the evidence

Controversial take: you don't need to be a traditional software engineer to build software products in 2026. **What the market is paying for:** - Product sense (knowing what to build) - Prompt engineering (knowing how to build it with AI) - Distribution (knowing how to sell it) I'm making more from my AI-built tools than most junior devs at FAANG. Not because my code is better — it's probably worse. But because I ship every week and they're stuck in sprint planning. The ceiling is real: you hit walls that require deep CS knowledge. But for 80% of SaaS use cases, vibe coding gets you there faster.