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> It's always a combo of vibe coding + automation tools like n8n/zapier that does some simple data plumbing or just calls an API.

I agree with all that you said, however…

I have found that doing stuff that could be done with code with the automation tools/services that you mentioned above (plus excel) is often preferable for small businesses and certain orgs precisely so that a programmer doesn’t have to be called on every time a change is needed.

Not knocking programmers (I’ve been programming since age 10), but programmers aren’t always easy to hire and evaluate, and their cost (at least until recently) has been extremely high.

These automation tools allow for business to make a tech leap with much lower execution cost and risk.

So while I agree that a lot of the “vibe coding” stuff being promoted is drivel, that doesn’t mean that the tools themselves are not empowering in the right hands.