Vibe coding is turning “I had an idea” into “I launched a product nobody needs.”

I get why people are excited about vibe coding. Being able to go from a random idea to a working app in a few hours is genuinely crazy, and for prototypes, internal tools, or just testing ideas, it’s obviously useful. But I think there’s a different problem that doesn’t get talked about enough. Vibe coding makes building feel so cheap that people start skipping the boring part: actually figuring out whether anyone needs the thing. Now every half-formed idea can become a “product” by the end of the day, which sounds amazing until you realize the bottleneck was never just writing code. A lot of the time, the hard part is knowing what problem is real, who actually has it, how painful it is, whether they would pay for a solution, and why your version should exist instead of the 50 other AI-generated apps that look almost the same. That’s where I think vibe coding gets a little dangerous. It can make people confuse “I built something” with “I found a real user need.” Those are very different things. Maybe this is still a net positive because more people can experiment now, but I do wonder if we’re about to see a flood of products that technically work, look polished, and have zero actual user insight behind them. Curious if others are seeing this too. Is vibe coding helping people validate ideas faster, or is it just making it easier to mass-produce products nobody asked for?