I thought it was a joke until someone at my company gave a company wide presentation on how to use AI to accelerate coding and st several points flat out ADMITTED he didn't know what the hell it was doing but you just need to 'baby sit' it and you get useful scripts out of it. I'm a hardware engineer and I wanted to scream at him.

Now, your friend with the birlliant idea doesn't need you anymore and can ask a chatbot to make his brilliant app all by himself!

That is definitely a great benefit of vibe coding: it's an idiot magnet and frees up our brainspace.