Generative AI Is Having Its Herbalife Moment How predatory vibe coding startups are selling false hope to young people Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed that TikTok has been serving me ads for Replit — one of the many vibe-coding startups that have emerged in the past couple of years, and that serve as a glorified wrapper for models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. Now, TikTok can be a weird place at times. It’s full of companies trying to sell things to an audience that can not — and...