Comment by cosmic_cheese

> …it's having a good idea that solves a problem that nobody else is solving well.

Added emphasis to the most crucial part, in my opinion.

If you can manage to deliver a product that's meaningfully better than the competition, you still have an edge, so long as you're competent at marketing.

Nothing gets people searching for alternatives as consistently as frustration, and a product that was lazily built with AI (vibe coded or otherwise) is going to be full of bugs and papercuts that make using it a poor experience.

This is particularly true for software that sits in the hot path of peoples' workflows, where thoughtless design, misbehavior, and poor optimization chip away at time the user can't afford to spare.

In short: yes, competition will be plentiful but it will also be almost entirely awful, and capable SWEs can capitalize on that. It won't take much to stand out amongst the mountains of garbage that will be generated in the coming years.