Your Code Doesn’t Need to Scale. Engineers Are Just Gatekeeping.
The software industry’s obsession with scalability is a gatekeeping mechanism, not a technical necessity. Vibe coding shifts the bottleneck from syntax to intent, making ‘good enough’ the new standard for most problems. Engineers who scream ‘it won’t scale’ are missing the point: 90% of solutions don’t need to reach 10,000 users. They just need to work today.