The company I work at, like many, has been invaded by a bit of AI psychosis. The pressure to use AI coding agents is high, and with it has come a lot of pressure to experiment and create new shiny things. Lots of applause in the all-hands meeting for the rough-around-the-edges, but coded-in-a-week app, product, or feature. I’ve taken to calling this “vibe-signaling.” I think it’s a lot like the “virtue-signaling” we saw (and continue to see) in social media. There, we were posting obvious moral truisms to be seen as virtuous. Here, we’re vibe-coding to be seen vibe-coding.