They key part, as usual, will be figuring out how to sell the service to people who thought ChatGPT would have been enough.

after the fall (literal + season) there will be no more money.

billions were poured over AI companies (and yes, nowadays, if you are writing a stateful loop on top of LLM API you are considered as an AI company).

it will take sometime for new money to arrive into the cycle.

this CTO was simply naively trying to fulfill the Sam Altman (and the likes) promise "the future of AI", "90% of our code is written by AI" and so on.

this is the is on the borderline of scam, sure enough misleading the public.

That future is not that far. Without a truly Senior Engineer whatever AI writes is a slop in most cases.

I have been exclusively doing this in the past year, selling my services as “hardening vibe-coded prototypes for production” or “helping early stage startups scale”.

In the best cases, they were able to reach funding or paying users. Architecture debt is one of the worst kinds of tech debt, so if you set it up right, it’s really hard to mess up.

In the worst case, after my contract ended, the CEO fired the whole US engineering team and replaced them with offshore resources. This was an example of messing up despite the architectural and procedural safeguards we built.