vibe coding

14 statements across 13 episodes · 4 bullish · 7 bearish · 13 people on the record · first statement May 1, 2025 by Michael Truell · across every show →

Everything said about vibe coding, oldest first

May 1, 2025 negative
Insight
Truell: 'Vibe coding' breaks down when developers cannot understand scaling codebases
“By not understanding the details under the hood right now, you then very quickly get to a place where you're kind of limited. At a certain point where you create something that's big enough that you can't change.”
Michael Truell May 1, 2025 ▶ 11:07 The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell
Jul 6, 2025
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Shlomo: Intermediate specification steps diminish the 'aha moment' in vibe coding
“I think one of the key to the aha moment in the vibe coding world, or at least in base 44 is like, Holy shit. Like it actually understood me and you see the app. And if you have like a stage in the middle, it makes a surprise, like slightly less surprising. An…”
Maor Shlomo Jul 6, 2025 ▶ 1:16:58 Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
Jul 13, 2025
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Knapp: Pre-planning before vibe coding yields far better products than chat co-designing
“If you end up vibe coding this prototype, but you start off with a very clear plan about this is what the thing needs to look at, look like rather than going immediately into a conversational mode where you're sort of co-designing with the LLM and going back a…”
Jake Knapp Jul 13, 2025 ▶ 1:36:04 Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint
Jul 31, 2025 bearish
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Taylor: Maintenance, not prototype generation, is the true bottleneck in software
“I'm super excited about vibe coding, but I don't know, like generating a prototype has been the limiting factor in software ever. It's actually like building increasingly complex systems and actually changing them with agility. You know, if you look at the fam…”
Bret Taylor Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 43:04 He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
Aug 31, 2025 negative
Insight
Liu: Generating full business apps from code causes bugs and context collapse
“And yet if you have an agent that has to generate every single bit of that app from scratch from code, it's going to be very unreliable. There's going to be bugs. There's going to be data and security issues. And then you're also going to have a context collap…”
Howie Liu Aug 31, 2025 ▶ 37:24 How we restructured Airtable's entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
Dec 7, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Chen: Vibe coding is overhyped and will make codebases unmaintainable
“I definitely think that Vibe coding is overhyped. I think people don't realize, How much it's going to make your systems unmaintainable in the long term and decently dump this code into your code bases.”
Edwin Chen Dec 7, 2025 ▶ 51:54 The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen
Dec 18, 2025 positive
Insight
A dedicated vibe coder accelerates team velocity as much as an engineer
“Once you get into vibe coding and you see it's Value within your organization, leaning into somebody like that just accelerates your velocity because it is like an engineer on your team. It's just, they're not, to me, he's part technical, but they can be non-t…”
Elena Verna Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 48:23 The new AI growth playbook for 2026 | How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year
Dec 18, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Vibe coding is appearing in design, PM, and marketing job descriptions
“I see vibe coding As a skill being added to a lot of job descriptions for designers, for product managers for marketers, which I think is a really interesting shift.”
Elena Verna Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 45:43 The new AI growth playbook for 2026 | How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year
Jan 15, 2026 bearish
Insight
Lessin: Vibe coding does not really scale
“But then vibe coding also doesn't really scale. And so the reality is after a certain point, I had some friends who are great engineers just take it and like up level in a few ways that I honestly ran out of time to work on.”
Sam Lessin Jan 15, 2026 ▶ 1:11:05 How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook
Jan 18, 2026 neutral
Insight
Arnovitz: Serious AI development requires deep exploration unlike superficial vibe coding
“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.”
Zevi Arnovitz Jan 18, 2026 ▶ 28:18 How a Meta PM ships products without ever writing code | Zevi Arnovitz
Feb 8, 2026 positive
Insight
AI has solved execution, leaving design and taste as the differentiators
“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…”
Lazar Yovanovich Feb 8, 2026 ▶ 19:23 The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job)
Mar 29, 2026 positive
Opinion
Claire Vo: Vibe coding currently feels like gaming rather than stressful work
“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.”
Claire Vo Mar 29, 2026 ▶ 6:13 From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo
Apr 2, 2026 negative
Insight
Willison: Vibe coding without reviewing code is irresponsible for multi-user software
“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'…”
Simon Willison Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 9:53 An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & dark factories are coming
May 2, 2026 negative
Opinion
Schoening: Software Quality Has Not Improved In Last 12 Months
“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…”
Max Schoening May 2, 2026 ▶ 7:52 AI era skills: Why cultivating agency matters more than job titles | Max Schoening (Notion)
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