They said that the team they work with is being replaced by a vibe coded SaaS product and that when they look at the product it only looks like it could replace the actual engineers from a very surface level.

  > It's like someone took some screenshots of a competitor

This line stood out to me. I think it's something any of us who've tried to end to end vibe code something have experienced. The result is pretty (sometimes) but not functional.

  > At the shallowest depth, I can see how a CEO got bamboozled. The happiest path is implemented. The second happiest path is rough. The third happiest path is unhinged.

If I'm understanding them, they're saying on the surface (the "happiest path") is correct, but everything underneath isn't. That the stuff underneath is harder. So only the easiest part was shown and the leadership was happy to move forward because they wanted to believe. It promised they could reduce costs by laying of expensive developers but the decision was unjustified considering the product didn't work as advertised.