Vibe Coding

“What's happening right now with vibe coding and agentic coding literally any given person could be 400 of that person, like, from two years, like, even, like, nine months ago you can be a multiple of yourself.”

“You can take your idea to an application in what used to take people, like six months, going to be done in a few hours.”

“Uber famously just put a 1500 dollar per employee cap on vibe coding per month. Meta's been reported to do the same.”

“Now, I think the types of businesses to create are businesses like this. They're not like little tools that could be vibe coded. These are startup ideas that, you know, could be profitable on day one that, you know, have some moat that are, you know, are reinv…”

“Consumer and prosumer apps specifically, I think are going to take a big hit, because consumers and prosumers are so cheap, and they'll blow a weekend coding something, vibe coding it, to kill, what, a hundred dollar a year subscription.”

“Salesforce, what is the biggest value Salesforce provide? It's not the CRM. It's the fact that you trust a SaaS providers with your data, right? You have huge banks, huge companies that actually allow Salesforce to hold all of the customer data because they tr…”

“Cause I mean, vibe coding is not really good for this really deep infrastructure work yet.”

“I think the SaaS-pocalypse is so dumb because Hey, yeah, I'm like vibe coding this inbox app, but 99% of the world is going to want to use something that's maintained by someone else. Yes, you can one shot everything, but the I think the hard rare thing is mov…”

“But now that like the app can be built in coded in 20 minutes, like Okay, the long pole is deploying the thing. And so, anyway, vibe coding was easy. Vibe deployment has become like more of the binding constraint.”

“I don't believe we are all headed for a future where we all need to be vibe coders.”

“The notion that I'm going to vibe code my own CRM and I'm going to vibe code all my own applications. I think that that it's just not a reality, right? Even if you could build it, maintaining it, evolving it, liability”

“When you're doing vibe coding with agents, one of the things you'll notice is that your wall clock time, you know, in the world is mostly spent on Running tests, gathering data, searching through code base. A lot of the time is spent actually not just inferenc…”

“It's very quick to get to the 90% where it looks the same, and in, like, 80% of the cases it works similarly. It's the other 90% that are difficult. You know, it's like ensuring all the edge cases work, and all the unhappy paths, and all the audit locking, and…”

“It will be the future. I don't know when, but it will be the future.”

“One of the biggest problems that people have with vibe coding and agentic engineering is they build something and no one No one's no one's going to it. Well, you know, if you build games, for example, that actually generate buzz around what you're, the bigger,…”

“Like this, the vibe coding era is gonna be remembered for a Chernobyl style disaster is my prediction. People are vibe coding software that they do not understand. And it's only a matter of time with all the hype that's being poured into this right now. It is …”

“I think like maybe 80% of the students applying and we had four or 500 people apply for six positions. 80% of them did the vibe coding, and I was shocked.”

“It's only a matter of time before someone vibe codes their way into a massive mission critical disaster. When they deploy code they think they understand, but they don't.”

“When you're building these intelligent agentic applications using Vibe Coding evals almost become existential. You know, that's the only way you have a high degree of confidence that what you've built is going to work well.”

“Said differently, if I were starting Airbnb today, I'd be vibe coding and cloud code.”

“Everything I do today, including this tool that I'm showing you, which is my own notion with slides, Is vibe coded, and I made it by myself.”

“Although we have gone through this crazy vibe coding boom, where everyone is vibe coding apps, it feels like a very temporary aberration.”

“My, you know, my issue in general with like vibe coded projects is that Because anyone could, you know, create apps and products like this, it's almost like you need to have some credibility layer in order to listen to the content.”

“I do have a general sort of maybe issue with vibe coding in the sense of, I don't feel like the quality of software has increased all that much in the last 12 months. I think the, maybe the amount of software has, but it's very, very hard to find software that…”

“People will get fired because there will be some public companies where some goofball tries to vibe code their way out of something and they're going to torch the enterprise value.”

“I think vibe coding has gotten so easy that like, 95% of the things that you would want to code, it's as easy as creating a presentation.”

“And September, 20, 24 Repli became the first, like what's called five coding product where we abstracted away code entirely, so there's like a coding agent behind the scene, but you're just interfacing with AI using natural language”

“JavaScript is the original sort of vibe language, because JavaScript didn't have types. You could like run into errors. But the reason why we adopted JavaScript is because web software was not going to kill anyone. Your Gmail, if someone pushes a bug to Gmail,…”

“Like you might have a task that was going to take you six hours, but instead you could take 30 minutes and vibe code a tool that will do that task for you. And you may never use that piece of software again, right?”

“I think one failure mode of the post-technical, you know, like manager, which you are, which I am, is that you think you, oh, AI can do it. And then you like, you know, you vibe code something, you throw it to your employees, and then you expect that to just p…”

“You can't like vibe code a network. You can't vibe code a new data set.”

“I know a lot of people don't know how to vibe code to production because they just don't understand the architecture”

“If you're vibe coding something for yourself, where the only person who gets hurt, if it has bugs, is you go wild. That's completely fine. The moment you did your vibe coding code for other people to use where your bugs might actually harm somebody else. That'…”

“I think vibe coding is like gaming right now. Like I haven't felt like this since I was a teenager learning to code and playing video games and all this kind of stuff.”

“It will have as much impact as Visual Basic had on the nature of software development.”

“B to B SaaS is not going to go away, but for those folks building that software, they need to be very aware that it's going to be a way easier for people to build something to do what they're doing, and they have to figure out some way to make your software un…”

“I think vibe coding is fantastic for building tools that you can't buy, or these, like smaller utilities, where it's like, hey, this is sort of like a one-off piece of software that I need to use to solve a particular job. Fantastic. We're seeing so much more …”

“There is a great gain We are seeing internally in extensibility of software using things like VibeCoding.”

“And for any, anybody else in the audience, like, you lose a little bit of credibility, I think, you know, when your customers are viewing your product and they're saying like, Eh, this looks like a bunch of other things I've seen. They probably just use AI to …”

“I think vibe coding is one of those minor threats to software companies in our lifetimes, and I vibe code constantly. It's a minor threat.”

“But if you're building some line of business application for a niche, the odds that like there's a bunch of vibe coded competitors moving faster or whatever is it's probably pretty low.”

“So I think at the end of the day, vibe coding is amazing technology, but I don't think it's going to disrupt software companies.”

“Especially when vibe coding got big, I've really never touched the coding part anymore. It made it a lot easier to just focus on the marketing part for the design.”

“The biggest beneficiaries of vibe coding are going to be the hardware nerds like me. It's going to be the shape rotators not the word cells. Everyone's focused on, on, on, on how the word cells are going to be wiped out by AI, but for the shape rotators, it's …”

“Share how many months or years you think before your, like, normie friends that don't live in the Bay Area are going to send you their app that they just made. Cause I think it's like, 12 months.”

“You can put together a prototype, like and you can vibe code your way to kind of a, you know, a simple scheduling app but you can't vibe code your way to something that has kind of deep value to a domain.”

“You're not going to VibeCode Salesforce for real, but you know what you can VibeCode? Something for demo day that looks really good.”

“At the end of last year, just all of a sudden the number of mobile apps like quintupled at the end of last year because of vibe coding, and it's just starting.”

“I mean, a year ago, vibe coding was great for prototyping. I mean, now I think it's, like, great for production. So, in terms of MVPs, like, the concept of saying I don't have technical resources to build an MVP is just, like, not true.”

“Something like an Airbnb, you know, you can have all the vibe coding in the world. Like, their network effect is incredibly powerful.”

“Once you figure out that we solved for the how, which is AI assistant or rapid engineering, call it whatever you want. You can call it vibe coding if you want to, but, like, we solved for that. Now we gotta solve for everything else, and everything else is wha…”

“I gave the team a challenge, and actually Ilan, my co-founder, obviously took it first and did it over the weekend to vibe code our expense product. And it took him six hours to do that.”

“It used to be that if you wanted to, For credit, you had to find some like open source projects, somebody who had spent like weeks rebuilding the functionality, and then you could do it, but you couldn't generate all the content. So like it would be really, re…”

“The hardest thing to do is to find something that somebody actually wants to use, right? Like that's the hard problem. If I have something that I vibe coded and I launch it, and if it crashes under the weight of 50,000 people beating my door down because it's …”

“But if you believe in AI, as I do, and we're going to continue to make progress on AI agents, and all the labs, billions of dollars, perhaps trillions of dollars, are going towards optimizing code specifically, then we're going to get to a point where it's, ag…”

“I actually think the term vibe coding will be like information superhighway where it's a term we don't use in the future because the idea that your software is something that you can change yourself will be something we expect rather than a novel concept.”

“I think it will open up the whole productivity space to designers, creatives, artists that maybe would have had to work with teams about access to teams of programmers. Now they can probably do, you know, a lot more just on their own.”

“In many categories, being an aggregator of models is actually preferable to consuming just a single model. And the metaphor that we're all familiar with here, of course, is airlines. It's much more useful to search for a flight from SF to New York on kayak, be…”

“And I think this is the big difference between like just vibe coding and going along with the vibes and really building serious apps. I spend a lot of time going back and forth and understanding.”

“I think the idea that everyone can build is not a moment in time hype cycle.”