The Five-Month Revolution

LinkedIn is buzzing about vibe coding’s impact on organizations.

“It’s changing everything!” say the enthusiasts.

“It’s destroying software quality!” counter the traditionalists.

Both camps are missing something fundamental: vibe coding has existed for five months.

Five. Months.

That’s not enough time to change a coffee order habit, let alone organizational foundations. Yet here we are, debating whether it’s revolutionizing or ruining enterprise development.

I’ve watched companies spend longer than five months just deciding which project management tool to use. The idea that a coding approach could fundamentally reshape organizational values in the same timeframe is… well… optimistic.

Real organizational change operates on geological timescales. Culture shifts happen when people retire, not when new tools emerge. The companies celebrating vibe coding victories today are probably the same ones who adopted React faster than everyone else because they were already comfortable with experimentation.

The companies dismissing it as dangerous chaos? They were already risk-averse.

Vibe coding didn’t change these organizations. It reveals them.

Maybe the question isn’t whether vibe coding will transform how we work. Maybe it’s whether we’re ready to see what our organizations actually value when a faster option appears.

Five months is just enough time to show what was already there.