You're right it's a fine line, but I think there was always a kind of underlying 'tech legitimacy'. PG is a big Lisp nerd. HN is ultra minimal and well designed.
It's one thing to say 'just make it work' - it's another to create hype on top of nonsense.
I don't want to diss vibecoding - because it has it's place, but GStack is being presented in the context of something new and amazing in terms of engineering productivity - not just 'a thing that works good enough'.
But there's an on-brand element to it.
It's a bridge to far though.
There is already backlash, whereas, I'm not sure there is backlash to AirBnB's initial attempts - literally nobody is going to care what their stack is.
It's one thing to say 'just make it work' - it's another to create hype on top of nonsense.
I don't want to diss vibecoding - because it has it's place, but GStack is being presented in the context of something new and amazing in terms of engineering productivity - not just 'a thing that works good enough'.
But there's an on-brand element to it.
It's a bridge to far though.
There is already backlash, whereas, I'm not sure there is backlash to AirBnB's initial attempts - literally nobody is going to care what their stack is.