A six-year backend dev's case that the vibe-coding market corrects hard, and r/SaaS mostly agreed
A 153-upvote, 136-comment r/SaaS post argues the Replit and Lovable wave produced people who confuse generating code with engineering software, and draws the line at supervision: a developer using Claude to implement an architecture they understand is fast, while someone prompting a product they cannot explain has outsourced decisions about auth, permissions, data models and failure handling. The economic claim is the interesting one, that when anyone can generate a CRM in a weekend, building stops being the differentiator and engineering judgment reprices upward. His concrete advice is to learn a real backend platform like Supabase, Appwrite, Firebase or PocketBase specifically because they force you to confront auth and access control.
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