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Telling your investors after a Series A that you are going to vibe-code your own purchasing system is contrarian enough that any reasonable board would question it.

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vibe coding Building software by describing what you want and accepting what comes back, without reading much of it.

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  1. Max Hodak

    Co-founder and chief executive of Science

    Well, I mean, okay, even the whole basis of building Helix is contrarian. Like, I think that if you raise a series A and then you tell your investors that you're going to vibe code a purchasing system, I think that any reasonable board is going to like ask you what you're thinking.

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Everything filed under vibe coding vibe coding Everything filed under design design Everything filed under Omarchy Omarchy Everything filed under Ruby Ruby Everything filed under SaaS SaaS Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Read this korrent: Telling your investors after a Series A that you are going to vibe-code your own purchasing system is contrarian enough that any reasonable board would question it. Telling your investors after a Series Athat you are going to vibe-code your ownpurchasing system is contrarian enoughthat any reasonable board would questionit. Last stated a month ago 7 Aug 2026 MH Max Hodak — holds since 2026-08-07 — tap for who they are Same subject: A person at maximum vibe-coding speed has about three productive hours a day, and a company that will not let them stop there is going to break. — tap to centre the map on it A person at maximum vibe-codingspeed has about three productivehours a day, and a company that willnot let them stop there is going tobreak. Last stated 6 months ago 11 Mar 2026 SY Steve Yegge — holds since 2026-03-11 — tap for who they are Same subject: A vibe-coded codebase grows heresies: wrong ideas that take root among the agents, keep coming back, and are very hard to weed out. — tap to centre the map on it A vibe-coded codebase growsheresies: wrong ideas that take rootamong the agents, keep coming back,and are very hard to weed out. Last stated 6 months ago 11 Mar 2026 SY Steve Yegge — holds since 2026-03-11 — tap for who they are Same subject: Deciding what software should do and why is still a human job: vibe coding changes the implementation phase far more than the planning phase. — tap to centre the map on it Deciding what software should do andwhy is still a human job: vibecoding changes the implementationphase far more than the planningphase. Last stated 2 years ago 7 Mar 2025 JN Jakob Nielsen — holds since 2025-03-07 — tap for who they are Same subject: Leaving a known production bug unfixed is the right call when the business impact is zero — my vibe-coded service crashes and still has fewer outages than LeetCode. — tap to centre the map on it Leaving a known production bugunfixed is the right call when thebusiness impact is zero — myvibe-coded service crashes and stillhas fewer outages than LeetCode. Last stated 2 months ago 24 Jun 2026 NE NeetCode — holds since 2026-06-24 — tap for who they are Same subject: Letting non-programmers vibe-code features into a large existing product destroys its architecture, even when every individual change looks defensible. — tap to centre the map on it Letting non-programmers vibe-codefeatures into a large existingproduct destroys its architecture,even when every individual changelooks defensible. Last stated 2 weeks ago 26 Aug 2026 DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-08-26 — tap for who they are Same subject: Making coding easy makes design more critical, not less: when anyone can produce working features, the quality of the experience is what sets products apart. — tap to centre the map on it Making coding easy makes design morecritical, not less: when anyone canproduce working features, thequality of the experience is whatsets products apart. 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