Prototyping is a lot easier indeed. I've experienced this as well. And many of the prototypes are kind of shipable even after a only a bit of iteration. Mostly it's super easy to go from prototype to something shippable. I hate the term vibe coding actually. Is it still vibe coding when the thing has end to end tests and I've been trying to break it for a few days?

The flip side is, nobody cares. I've put some of these things up on Github and ... nothing. It seems even my pre-AI projects have dropped sharply in eyeballs judging by issues, prs, stars, etc. People are too busy doing their own things to bother looking at other people's stuff. And rightfully so. There's nothing magical about my prompting to what people can prompt themselves. The value of these prototypes just dropped. Except op course for people still doing things the old fashioned way.

So, you can ship your prototype. But there's very little point to doing so. Even if it isn't slop, it's just very hard to stand out from the masses of other people's prototypes. The value of custom applications just dropped by an order of magnitude. Everybody is going to expect things to be tailored to them now.