I killed your future nightmare <3 and honestly am trying to look out, not just destroy something for the fun of it.

I don't know your age, but I've seen from people around me that retired and got some free time, that as long as the cognitive clockwork is still functioning okay, you're not too old to learn. So maybe it's more of a "not right now" thing. And if anything, AI can help you learn. The key concepts imho are "don't be lazy" and "don't hand off / publish things you don't understand", which is a matter of discipline, patience and attention to detail more than skill.

This means that vibe coding is essentially an optimized way to automate coding that you already master and can have an informed opinion about when it is proposed to you, or to get something quickly for yourself that you don't need to publish / share with others. If then your final product is poor because of your misguided tooling, it's the same fuckup you would have made when you were to not automate.

The enemy of security in this is that many devs/non-devs take already awful QA process and lessen it because they trust the bot's output - most often because it all sounds amazingly complicated so it must be smarter than me and thus be right. That's also what has been pushed by the labs and they failed to deliver on this "vision" all the way. It's simply marketing speak, trying to get max FOMO for max valuations. Like a ponzi: maybe with the next capital injection you can make it real. Fake till make. Zuck shit. Theranos shit.

Just don't fall for it. "Don't trust, verify" is awesome when diligently practiced.