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.
cyanydeez•1h ago
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.
guiambros•59m ago
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
amarant•54m ago
What does Linux kernel Devs know about real software development anyway? [1]
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/greg_kroahhartman_ai_...
cyanydeez•51m ago