Lewis Dickson is 78 years old, he lives in a retirement home, and he is currently making your software engineer look like a Victorian coal miner. Using the new Lovable app on his iPhone, Dickson is part of a growing movement of “vibe coders” who build complex web applications using nothing but plain English. “I don't read—or understand—the code,” one vibe coder told Business Insider, and frankly, why should they?

Typing is increasingly a low-class aesthetic, a sweaty legacy constraint for those who haven’t embraced the agentic AI moment. The Lovable platform, now available for iPhone, allows users to prompt apps into existence while sipping a Negroni by the pool. 13-year-old Usman Asif and his sister are already using these tools to compete in hackathons, proving that the digital perimeter is now open to anyone with a voice and a vibe.

Apple has naturally expressed concern, citing guidelines about apps changing their own behaviour, but the revolution is already out of the playpen. As professional engineers panic over their relevance, the leisure class is discovering that building a bespoke app is as easy as ordering a bespoke suit. Traditional coding is dead; long live the prompt.