The strangler fig doesn't cut the tree down. A bird drops its seed in the canopy, the roots climb down the trunk and wrap the host, and once the host rots away, the fig stands where it stood, grown into the host's exact shape. In 2026, with AI compressing a rewrite into 11 days, that metaphor matters more, not less: the old code isn't the tree you fell. It's the tree the new code takes its shape from.
Good news: you don't need to learn to code — AI writes faster than you. Better news: you can stop brainstorming too — AI has more ideas than you. Best news: neither is worth anything anymore. The only thing still worth anything is the compute behind an API key — and that one takes a credit card.
Thirty days of vibe coding will get you: one project that runs, one codebase you can't read, and one brain that can't reproduce a single line of it. Hold off on signing up for that bootcamp — psychology says you haven't gotten dumber, the memory-forming step just got outsourced to the AI.
How we added a Markdown-driven blog to a single-page static site without bloating the homepage — separate URLs, per-post metadata, and structured data, all generated at build time.