https://vicboomer.com/tags/intent/ Recent content in Intent on Vic Boomer Hugo nl Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vicboomer.com/essays/en-after-vibe-coding-comes-the-intent-layer/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vicboomer.com/essays/en-after-vibe-coding-comes-the-intent-layer/ <p>A developer built a complete SaaS application in a single weekend in March 2025. Login flow, Stripe integration, dashboard, REST API. Cursor open, typing prompts, accepting suggestions, fourteen hours later: a working product. Two weeks later it was offline. The code did exactly what the prompts asked. The product did nothing anyone needed.</p> <p>This pattern repeats at scale since vibe coding — the term Andrej Karpathy coined — became the standard approach for a growing group of developers and non-technical builders. The production costs of software are declining. The number of projects nobody uses is not declining with them.</p>