Lemkin: Vibe coding apps like Salesforce in 10 minutes is dangerous bologna
Jason Lemkin · The Complete Guide to Vibe Coding without a Developer with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin · Sep 12, 2025 · at 2:55
Jason Lemkin, CEO and founder of SaaStr, discusses the reality versus social media marketing hype around non-technical founders vibe-coding enterprise SaaS applications.
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“There's a lot of stuff on social media about, Hey, you can just vibe code your own HubSpot or Salesforce. You can vibe code your own notion. It will take. 10 minutes. That's Sony baloney. And it is almost dangerous Sony baloney because it's not just startups that say it. It's not just lovable and replet to say it. Microsoft is saying it. GitHub is saying it now. Canva is saying you can do some of this. Everyone is saying you can magically go to a prompt and say, I want to build my own descriptive. My own whatever. And moments later it will pop out and it will work. And it does not work that way.”
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