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Remember when every website had one? Some animated Flash contrivance you'd sit through before the actual site loaded. It was ridiculous. It was also evidence that someone cared about making something weird on the internet.

That energy mostly disappeared. The web got professionalized. Optimized. Homogenized. Templatized into a sea of identical Webflow sites with the same scroll-triggered animations and the same stock photography of people laughing at salads.

Then vibe coding showed up.

I just built a fantasy UI dashboard, a fully interactive control panel for a near-future apartment complex. Click and drag everything. Little details pop up. Sliders slide. It's a beautiful, useless toy. Took me less than 20 minutes.

Except it's not useless. Put that on a screen in a movie and suddenly an actor is interacting with a real interface, not an After Effects comp. Put it on a touch screen at a physical activation and let users actually use it. It's a prop that works. A functional daydream. Design fiction.

And I didn't write a single line of code.

The distance between having an idea and holding it in your hands just collapsed. That hasn't happened since the 90s, when a teenager with a GeoCities account and a dream could publish something genuinely unhinged to the entire world.

We went from that to needing a developer, a design system, a staging environment, and a Jira ticket just to make a landing page.

Vibe coding brings back the garage. The sketchbook. The "what if I just tried this" energy that made the early web feel alive. More people building, publishing, and hosting their own things again. Not for clients. Not for metrics. For the pure, dumb joy of making something that didn't exist twenty minutes ago.

The web doesn't need another template. It needs more Skip Intro buttons.