Someone vibe coded a $24K/year Bloomberg Terminal in 3 hours. 80,000 lines. Real-time dashboards, FX charts, earnings summaries, the works. None of it worked. Data wasn't normalized, tickers didn't match across exchanges. This is the part people keep missing. AI made building trivial. But the value was never in the code — it's in the data, the integrations, the boring stuff nobody wants to vibe code. Bloomberg isn't $24K because the UI is hard to build. It's $24K because the data pipeline behind it took decades.
Insight on value creation vs code complexity
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