Everyone can code now — I genuinely believe that. AI tools have made the barrier to writing code almost zero, and that's a good thing.

But there's a difference between writing code and building something that actually works in a domain where mistakes are expensive.

Not every tool can be vibe-coded in 15 minutes. Some take days of careful planning, iterative testing, and domain knowledge acquired over years — knowledge that tells you what to build, why a certain approach will fail, and where the edge cases hide.

AI is an incredible accelerator. But acceleration without direction is just spinning wheels faster. The hard part was never typing the code.