I vibecoded an app to $10,000

A 20-year software developer built SoloTerm, a desktop terminal workspace for managing AI agents and long-running dev commands, earning nearly $11,000 in revenue. Built over 3-4 months with 951 commits using AI coding agents but without opening an IDE, the author argues this is 'agentic engineering' not 'vibe coding' — because they actively supervised every agent action, directed refactoring, enforced testing and CI, and kept hands on the wheel. The post demonstrates SoloTerm's features (multi-project management, agent tabs, MCP server integration, auto-summarization) and warns that unsupervised AI agents quickly produce sloppy, uncontrollable codebases.