Why would you invest in a vibe app though? What's the moat that will protect your investment? That somebody "had an idea"? Conventional wisdom is that ideas are a dime a dozen
things that make it non-replicatable. But an AI-made app is pretty much replicatable. Maybe the moat would be the network effect, but that shows up later, not at the time of investment.
The world seems to be divided between people who assume that things work well until they are proven not to, and the other kind of people, who are known as “responsible adults.”
Responsible adults say that vibe-coding a serious product is a bad idea, because you aren’t capable of recognizing or fixing certain serious problems that commonly arise.
reads like chatgpt talking to claude about imaginary things.
While this may be a real human reality, the way it's presented is in the golly-gee-whiz, I'm just a farm-folk engineer.
If you meant this to be convincing, it's not. It looks like copy-paste-find-replace of all these other tech blogs where they found $SHINYNEWEVIDENCE of $MODUS_OPERANDI and you should too.
I don't understand what your comment is about. You don't like his style, you disagree with the evidence, or the conclusion?
The author is Brad Feld [1], who wrote checks to thousands of startups, wrote a dozen books, and advises a bunch of founders. He's talking about his personal experience observing the shift in the typical profile of a startup entrepreneur.
I think his perspective is very valid. For the past 20 years we assumed (and confirmed through empirical evidence) that having a technical co-founder was critical for the success of a startup.
This era is getting to an end, and the next 20 will be radically different in the next 20. You'll probably still need human engineering skills to scale, but getting from 0 to 1 will depend much more on taste than how good you are in <language X>.
Yeah why are all these people considering evidence in the first place? Have they no faith? $ONLINEGURUINFLUENCER said AI can only produce slop so it must be true!
What does Linux kernel Devs know about real software development anyway? [1]
But is it possible to build real apps that work well? I can absolutely confirm. Deploying software that's used by household names.
I think people are making a lot of false dichotomy around this, just because there's AI slop doesn't mean that it never works.
Responsible adults say that vibe-coding a serious product is a bad idea, because you aren’t capable of recognizing or fixing certain serious problems that commonly arise.
While this may be a real human reality, the way it's presented is in the golly-gee-whiz, I'm just a farm-folk engineer.
If you meant this to be convincing, it's not. It looks like copy-paste-find-replace of all these other tech blogs where they found $SHINYNEWEVIDENCE of $MODUS_OPERANDI and you should too.
The author is Brad Feld [1], who wrote checks to thousands of startups, wrote a dozen books, and advises a bunch of founders. He's talking about his personal experience observing the shift in the typical profile of a startup entrepreneur.
I think his perspective is very valid. For the past 20 years we assumed (and confirmed through empirical evidence) that having a technical co-founder was critical for the success of a startup.
This era is getting to an end, and the next 20 will be radically different in the next 20. You'll probably still need human engineering skills to scale, but getting from 0 to 1 will depend much more on taste than how good you are in <language X>.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Feld
What does Linux kernel Devs know about real software development anyway? [1]
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/greg_kroahhartman_ai_...