Wonder what an unemployed developer would think about losing jobs to vibe coders, especially if they get paid more or the salary is the same. And then not be considered for a role as a vibe coder because you do things the “old way”

I don't know,.any developer who would not deliberately decide to not use ai would be easily becoming better in using ai as any non technical person.

Non technical people are usually not even able to use versioning software in a good way.

A developer could hold the ai on the rails. And understood when things go in the wrong direction.

So yes pure vibe coding might be a thing. But I don't think vibe coders would outperform developers if the dev would also use an ai in any form. Of course maybe they are cheaper. But no real competitors on the same level.