Comment by ben_w

Perhaps, but I don't think that's a good analogy, there's too many important differences to say (3d printing : all manufacturing) : (vibe coding : all software).

The hype may be similar, if that's your point then I agree, but the weakness of 3D printing is the range of materials and the conditions needed to work with them (titanium is merely extremely difficult, but no sane government will let the general public buy tetrafluoroethylene as a feedstock), while the weakness of machine learning (even more broadly than LLMs) is the number of examples they require in order to learn stuff.