The Year Software Development Stopped Being a Bottleneck Something structurally changed in 2025. Before that year, shipping software meant hiring developers, writing requirements documents, running sprint cycles, waiting for QA, and hoping the result matched what the business actually needed three months after the conversation that started it. After that year, the equation changed. Andrej Karpathy coined the term vibe coding in February 2025. By March 2025 it was a Merriam-Webster trending expression. By the end of 2025 Collins English Dictionary named it their Word of the Year. And by 2026, the data makes the shift impossible to argue with. 92% of US developers now use AI coding tools daily. 41% of all global code is AI-generated. The vibe coding market hit $4.7 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach $12.3 billion by 2027. 25% of startups in Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch had codebases that were 95% AI-generated.…