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Fiverr Ad Mocks Vibe Coding - with a Singing Overripe Avocado

It's a cultural milestone. Fiverr just released an ad mocking vibe coding. The video features what its description calls a "clueless entrepreneur" building an app to tell if an avocado is ripe — who soon ends up blissfully singing with an avocado, to the tune of the cheesy 1980s song "Nothin...

The avocado sings joyously of "a new app on the rise in a no-code world that's too good to be true" (rhyming that with "So close. Just like an avocado that looks perfect on the outside, once you inspect the insides, AI-generated code can be deceptively unripe Fiverr might be feeling the impact of vibecoding themselves. Even when issuing a buy recommendation, Seeking Alpha called it "a short-term rebound play, as the company faces longer-term risks from AI and active buyer churn."

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