Vibe Code
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Walling: Only massive cost savings or extreme customization justify vibe-coding in-house software
“There are only two legitimate reasons to build your own versions of an app, like to vibe code it. One is to save money, And that's only if it's really expensive. Like, let's say something is 10,000 dollars a year, 20 grand a year, and you think you can cut tha…”
Abrahami: Developers will never vibe-code platforms as complex as Shopify
“You're not going to vibe code Shopify, no matter how good you are. The business stack is too hard.”
Sinofsky: People wildly underestimate the difficulty of vibe coding enterprise software
“There's this wild underestimation about, like, you could vibe code your way into enterprise software.”
Evans: Only idiots believe people will use vibe coding to rebuild Stripe
“Like, no, people are not going to vibe code to their own stripe, but that's kind of a straw man. Like it's, I'd say it's a straw man, except there are people who say this, but only idiots.”
Yang: Designers Who Ignore Vibe Coding Will Soon Be Obsolete
“As a designer, you kind of need to learn how to vibe code. Otherwise, you're going to, like, if you want to know how to do Figma, like, you're probably going to be, like, out of date in a couple of years.”
Isenberg: AI allows builders to ship free marketing tools in one day
“It's now like not crazy to build a free tool a week. Whereas in the past, these things would have taken you months. So you can vibe code a free tool in a day, ship it by lunch, and then markets itself forever.”
Siemiatkowski: Non-tech SMBs will buy off-the-shelf software rather than vibe code
“I don't think the plumbing firm, the electrician of the future will code the VibeCode this themselves. Definitely not. They will buy off-the-shelf products for this.”
Rampell: AI vibe coding threatens high-margin software lacking data moats
“What makes, it actually increases the peril for anybody who's built a software product that has an enormous margin pool. You know, your margin is my opportunity. Well, I can vibe code against your opportunity. It has to be very, very sticky. It has to have som…”
Lemkin: Vibe coders should build multi-page apps rather than single-page architectures
“Force, if you're going to vibe code it, break it up into its components and then have more pages than you would think. You're almost going back in time in some ways to have a lot of pages, but it will save your sanity. I built a massively complicated app that …”
Shlomo: Founders can vibe code custom productivity tools for their workflow
“You can vibe code your way into like productivity tools that really fits what you want to do and what kind of like the process for you looks like.”