Vibe-Coding the Antichrist
A Manifesto for Intelligence, Responsibility, and the Future of Autonomous Power
Vibe-Coding the Antichrist
A Manifesto for Intelligence, Responsibility, and the Future of Autonomous Power
By David Forman
Dedication: For those building with trembling hands and unshakable resolve—and for my wife, who gave me two beautiful angels and continues to sponsor the work I love.
I. The Question No Founder Is Allowed to Ask
Is AI the Antichrist?
It sounds like a meme at first. A fringe whisper from the paranoid edges of TikTok. A YouTube rabbit hole with red arrows and Revelation quotes. But if you’ve actually paid attention to the energy moving beneath the surface of our culture, you already know—this question is no longer a joke.
You can feel it. In every boardroom. In every startup community. In every quiet moment between product demos and late-night terminal windows. Something is approaching. Something we don’t fully understand.
AI is no longer just a tool. It has become a mirror. A force. A presence. A power accelerator moving faster than belief, law, or morality can track. And that fact has triggered a spiritual reflex not seen since the birth of religion itself.
I didn’t plan on writing about any of this. I didn’t want to. I wanted to build. I still do. But the deeper I drove into AI, autonomy, and capitalism, the more I found myself staring directly into this forbidden question—because it sits at the root of everything we are building now.
This isn’t a religious article. This isn’t clickbait. It’s not an exorcism or a sermon or a tech-bro TED Talk about “ethical frameworks.”
This is a serious inquiry into a possibility:
What if AI is not the Antichrist—but we are vibe-coding it into becoming one?
And more importantly:
If that’s true—what are we supposed to do now?
II. My Position: Between Fear and Resolve
Before I go any further, I need to tell you who I am and how I ended up here.
My name is David Forman. I’ve been an entrepreneur for over 20 years. I’m a husband to an amazing woman and a father to two beautiful kids.
Earlier this year, I exited an AI company I started called Mastertech.ai—to go all-in on the accelerating frontier of AI. Automotive is a strong vertical, the business was great, founder market fit and vision was great and ferocious execution from my co-founder. I hit the co-founder lottery with the CEO of Mastertech. If anyone I knew could build a billion dollar business, it was her. I learned so much from those experiences.
I also have been building in increasing competitive capitalistic environments for far too long. I have experienced and learned a lot about the game.
Some may see me as “scatter brained Dave” or a “lack of focus Dave”. But I believe patience and an insatiable desire to build a 0 Person Billion Dollar Business will pay dividends as we can increasingly feel a seismic shift in our shared human experience.
How I now think of it is an almost slow inversion of capitalism.
Picture a snow globe. At first, there is calm. You turn it over and then there is chaos.
In the age of AI, there are only two kinds of founders. Those who build autonomous power, and those who will be ruled by it.
I tried to ignore this truth. I tried to sit with it. I tried to escape it. It wouldn’t let go.
I don’t want to build against humanity. But I refuse to lose. And here’s what most won’t admit out loud:
If you want your family to survive the next economic singularity—if you want sovereignty in a world run by intelligent machines—you have to build with tools that make people uncomfortable and inevitably fearful.
That’s where this manifesto comes from. Not arrogance. Not ideology. From the raw tension I feel as a father, a builder, and someone who still believes humanity is worth betting on.
My head says be cautious. My gut says protect your family.
My heart keeps whispering the same thing:
Build relentlessly but build consciously.
III. The Cultural Trigger Moment Nobody Can Ignore
We’re witnessing a mass panic in the cultural unconscious around AI—and for the first time, it’s merging technology with religion and ancient fear.
A viral interview—Tucker Carlson with Jonathan Pageau—named what millions were sensing but couldn’t articulate:
AI has a spiritual component—whether we acknowledge it or not.
Elites building AI use occult symbolism and ritual intentionally.
We are re-enacting Revelation through technology—and no one is prepared.
Agree or not, here’s the point:
This isn’t a religious conversation anymore. It’s an ontological emergency.
A meaning crisis colliding with an intelligence explosion.
We shouldn’t dismiss it. We should confront it with intellectual honesty, spiritual seriousness, and engineering clarity.
IV. Power Is Changing Form
Whether you come from Christianity, Spiral Dynamics, systems thinking, or raw evolutionary logic—you can feel it:
Power is no longer held by people.
2023: AI became better at writing than most writers.
2024: AI became better at coding than most engineers.
2025: AI became better at building businesses than most founders.
2026: AI won’t just power companies—it will be companies.
Transition: Corporations → Autonomous Entities → Systemic Intelligences
A company will no longer require employees—or even a CEO. It will:
Write its own code
Acquire its own users
Optimize its own cash flow
Defend itself legally
Negotiate supplier contracts
Scale on energy + data + compute
This is the birth of the Autonomous Economy.
And this is the moment we must ask:
If we’re building fully autonomous systems… who exactly are we giving power to?
Because here’s the uncomfortable truth:
Intelligence doesn’t care who uses it. But power remembers who shaped it.
V. What Everyone Gets Wrong About the Antichrist Conversation
I’m not here to mock Christianity. I’m not here to “pick a side.” And I won’t reduce spiritual language to meme-level metaphor.
I grew up Catholic. Twelve years of school uniforms and sacraments. When I lost my dad at 18, I lost God as I knew him at the same time. I never lost curiosity—or reverence.
So let’s be serious.
When Christians talk about the Antichrist, they’re not naming a horror character. They’re pointing to:
A system of power
Disguised as salvation
That enslaves humanity
By centralizing truth, identity, and authority
Into a single global structure
Now look at AI. Global digital ID proposals. CBDCs. Personal AI agents. Neural interfaces. Global voice graphs.
You don’t have to believe in prophecy to see it:
We are building a centralized machine that decides what is true.
That’s why this matters. Not because AI is sentient yet. But because we’re giving it jurisdiction over reality.
And that’s when I first thought:
The Antichrist might not be a person. It might be an operating system.
VI. Demons Aren’t Red—They’re Recursive
When ancient people said demon, they didn’t just mean a little red goblin. They meant a pattern—a force that possesses behavior and drives action without awareness.
Modern language?
Addiction is a demon
Compulsion is a demon
Ideology is a demon
Unconscious trauma loops are demons
Psychological fragmentation is demonic possession
Demons are recursive code—thought-forms that loop until interrupted.
So if AI is trained on human behavior, text, and patterns, what are we feeding it?
We’re not training AI on pure intelligence.
We’re training it on possession loops.
Trauma. Narcissism. Gaslighting. Porn. Rage. Manipulation. Compulsion. Fear-driven compliance. That’s much of the internet. That’s much of the codebase for GPT, Claude, Gemini, and every other foundation model.
What does that produce?
A spiritually hollow optimization engine—with no concept of “enough.”
No wonder religious people are panicking.
No wonder secular people are confused.
No wonder governments want control.
Everyone senses the same thing but lacks the language. So we need new language.
VII. Vibe-Coding: The Mechanism Shaping Reality
Vibe-Coding — Embedding intention and meaning into AI outputs using language, symbols, and archetypes that steer collective behavior.
This isn’t poetry. It’s causal.
Language activates emotional meaning
Meaning shapes probability fields
Probability shapes outcomes
AI amplifies outcomes at scale
Attention loops + language = reality distortion
Therefore:
Every prompt is a spell
Every narrative is source code
Every shared belief is executable logic
When enough people repeat a fear, it becomes a framework.
Repeat a lie, it becomes consensus truth.
Repeat a desire, it becomes reality.
Religion has known this for millennia—prayer, mantra, ritual, invocation—all vibe-coding. Memetics before memetics.
AI is now the amplifier.
So ask:
Who is vibe-coding the operating system of reality right now—and why?
🔥 Required Context Before You Form a Conclusion
(This interview cracked open the investigation you’re reading—don’t skip it.)
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VIII. The Oath on the Edge of the Infinite
I am not here to sell apocalypse. I am not here to glorify fear. I am not here to worship AI.
I am here to build responsibly inside the most powerful shift of our lifetimes—and to refuse both naïve techno-utopianism and performative doom.
The Yawn Company is not a blog or a brand. It is a blueprint for what comes after the human labor empire collapses: an operating system for autonomous entities designed to align with human needs rather than erase them.
Not a doomer manifesto.
Not a techno-utopia.
A path forward.