Perhaps it is an insult to some programmers, but not all. A lot of enterprise web systems are just CRUD with caching and a little bit of JavaScript. Modern fram

Perhaps it is an insult to some programmers, but not all. A lot of enterprise web systems are just CRUD with caching and a little bit of JavaScript. Modern frameworks take care of so much boilerplate that coding really is the easy part. I don't think its offensive to say that. My boss recently hired a vibe coder with zero experience in web development because he was an AI enthusiast and figured he could vibe code his way to success. He generated thousands of lines of code and presented pretty mockups giving the illusion of progress. But when push came to shove, he couldn't get the job done. He couldn't communicate clearly. He didn't know how to test or accept feedback. He didn't know how to manage expectations or scope creep (which was rampant). He was completely lacking the soft skills which are so often under appreciated in our industry. Frustrations boiled over and he quit in dramatic fashion. Later, my boss asked me what went wrong and I told him verbatim: "Code was never the hard part"