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Carl Rivera

What Carl Rivera thinks about vibe coding

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Chief Product Officer at Nubank, appointed May 2026; before that at Shopify (Chief Design Officer; VP of Product, Merchant Services) and co-founder and CEO of Tictail, which Shopify acquired in 2018.

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  1. Our readingThe paths merchants use most should be made 10-out-of-10 experiences, while many other experiences can be vibe-coded 7-out-of-10 work on good component systems with no designer involved.

    design

    Their wordswe should double down on making them be 10 out of 10 experiences. And then I think a lot of our experiences can be vibe-coded 7 out of 10 things that use good component systems, are usable, but that you don't really even need to have a designer involved in them.

    ↗Tobi Lütke x Carl Rivera: Designing For Ambition (Context, Shopify)youtube.com 10th of 13 in this recording

  3. Our readingOnce people can vibe-code a utility for themselves, the question for a software company is whether it can make its software good enough to be worth paying for instead.

    Their wordscan we bring that quality of software to a level where it's actually worth paying for? Like, it's actually worth choosing to not build it for yourself using some vibe code tool.

    ↗Tobi Lütke x Carl Rivera: Designing For Ambition (Context, Shopify)youtube.com 11th of 13 in this recording