Vibe coding democratized building. It didn't democratize judgment. The risk isn't that non-developers are coding. It's that nobody's reviewing what they ship.
Engineering capacity just 10x'd with AI agents. Product judgment didn't. The bottleneck moved from "can we build this" to "should we build this."
Companies buy the platform, then look for the problem. The ones getting value do the opposite: find the friction, then pick the smallest tool that fixes it.
The dangerous failure mode is not AI doing something wrong loudly. It is AI doing something subtly wrong and nobody catching it for weeks.
The file that tells your AI agent how to behave has become the highest-leverage artifact in your entire workflow. Not the code. The configuration.
Pixar spent decades figuring out how to communicate complex ideas with clarity and emotion. Those same storytelling rules apply directly to how you write prompts for AI.