Your Daily Gist — March 12, 2026

Welcome to Daily Gist — your newsletters, distilled into conversation! Today, we’re looking at the moment coding stopped being a craft of syntax and started becoming a 'vibe' valued at a cool fifty billion dollars. Fifty billion dollars for a code editor like Cursor suggests we aren't just looking at a better tool, but an entirely different economic layer of software production where the person behind the keyboard is becoming a supervisor rather than a creator.