From another perspective, the market that vibe coding now occupies is the market that low-code once dreamed of: a group of people who can’t write code but want to create products by simply dragging and dropping.

The main problem with low-code is its rigidity and lack of flexibility, along with a very high learning curve. Vibe coding, on the other hand, starts with conversational programming—what you see is what you get.

Moreover, the target audience here isn’t necessarily looking to create commercial products right away. Instead, they want to first build something fun for themselves and then spend a lot of money figuring out how to commercialize it.

So low-code made some major mistakes:

1. Building infra but trying to sell it directly as a product
2. Poor user experience and extremely limited flexibility

The design philosophy of Cursor shifted from pleasing programmers to pleasing non-programmers—especially wealthy business owners, entrepreneurs, and creators from other industries.

They’re willing to pay a couple hundred dollars to create their own landing page or a cool product intro, something most programmers would never accept.

That’s why Cursor has been a complete success, and the term "low-code" has been permanently replaced by "vibe coding" or conversational programming.