> Writing code is not that hard.

It's not that hard, but it's not that easy. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. I'm a journalist who learned to code because it helped me do some stories that I wouldn't have done otherwise.

But I don't like to type out the code. It's just no fun to me to deal with what seem to me arbitrary syntax choices made by someone decades ago, or to learn new jargon for each language/tool (even though other languages/tools already have jargon for the exact same thing), or to wade through someone's undocumented code to understand how to use an imported function. If I had a choice, I'd rather learn a new human language than a programming one.

I think people like me, who (used to) code out of necessity but don't get much gratification out of it, are one of the primary targets of vibe coding.