Solo Founder to Fashion Brand, AI Trust Crisis, and Vercel's Free Model Stack

A solo founder used Codex and computer use to launch a fashion brand with no engineers — which is either the most concrete vibe-coding story we've seen or a preview of what "building a product" means in 2026. Meanwhile Dario Amodei is publicly acknowledging that AI companies haven't delivered on their promises, and Vercel keeps stacking free model access to make its AI Gateway the path of least resistance for developers.