The human mind is interesting. It assigns more value to effort and time than it does to the finished product. Take a developer making an app. They can spend a year shipping something and you’d look at that and assign some value. The developer spent time, the product works, even if it is t perfect - it’s worth something. For the developer, they’re not going to easily discard it even the app doesn’t take off. There’s sunk cost fallacy at play. Now take a vibed app. It may take a few minutes to a few weeks to create the same thing. From an outside perspective, all else equal, we don’t assign the same value to that product. It was easy to make after all and didn’t take much time. And for the vibe coder, it’s easy to throw it away if the app doesn’t become successful. In fact, they’ll likely throw it away before giving it any chance to succeed at all. Same for DIY furniture. DIY anything, really. Effort put into something results in the endowment effect. People don’t want to lose something that’s theirs. Vibe coded apps don’t feel like they are theirs. Even if the end result is exactly the same, the mind is biased. And everyone is susceptible to this without exceptions.