I hear what you are saying, but you can’t ignore the disruption vs traditional axis of ‘brand new shit’ vs ‘archaic shit that is still the basis of everything for probably a lot of good reasons.’

Thats the y axis.

The x axis is basically full corpo on the right, full foss/anarchist on the left.

So, the vibe coder is a soydev who works for cogdevs, or people somewhere between cogdev and soydev.

Here’s how I look at this.

Maybe if you went with… not the corners of the quadrants, but the tips of the axes, you’d get:

top:

ancient wizard of languages that aren’t even really taught anymore (COBOL, for example), but which everything actually runs on if you dig deep enough.

bottom:

hyper early adopter / innovator / formal researcher who does things because they can, asking about “should we do this?” is for cowards, yolo, etc

left:

open source radical anarchist, money is a disgusting thing that is unfortunately somewhat necessary to fund development

right:

full corpo bastard, code doesn’t actually matter, making money from code matters.

Further down in this thread, under another comment, I basically tried to do a ‘personality test’ or maybe ‘ttrpg archetype description’ style write up of the corners of the quadrants… at least my way of trying to make sense out of what I think whoever made this image is going for.