VP#4: Speed vs. Depth — The Hidden Cost of Vibe Coding Success
Aleksandr Torlo
Product Engineering Executive ✱ AI Strategy, Transformation & Governance ✱ EdTech, FinTech, PropTech, Web3, iGaming
Building a prototype in 30 minutes feels like a superpower until you realize the real cost isn't in the building — it's in the shipping. This week's deep dive into why the most successful vibe coders know when to stop vibing and start engineering properly.
Vibe Insights
On this episode of "The Ben & Marc Show", a16z co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz sit down with legendary music producer and bestselling author Rick Rubin to explore the origin of his unexpected new creation: "The Way of Code"*
We just published a new article exploring the role of vibe coding in product development, specifically, the hidden risks of treating prototypes as if they were production-ready software. Ala Stolpnik
Vibe Coding: Looks Like Code. Feels Like Progress. But Is It Real? Igor Stimoli
This article is part of my 30-day AI challenge, where I break down one tool or tip a day. Follow along by subscribing to Your AI Guide. Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Ever felt overwhelmed by the endless list of coding languages, libraries, and frameworks? I did too until I shifted my mindset. Siddharth Chopda
“Here, build me an app.” Cool. But do you even know what it built? Vibe coding ≠ blind coding. Read the damn docs. Rafał Truszkowski
Just published my thoughts on the state of "Vibe Coding" and how product teams should think about it. Colin Gillingham
Vibe coding is the trend of the moment in AI. I tried it, and to my surprise found it's easy to learn and a lot of fun. Here are my lessons from a week of vibe coding. Sam Stern
Are you someone who thinks coding is only for the ultra-geeks or seasoned developers? Think again. Ajai Chaudhary
Product Managers, check out my new vibe coding demo for a hella useful app, which I take from concept to working prototype in well under an hour. Jonathan Chalker
Vibe coding? That was cute. We’ve entered a new era: code conjuring. Diffusion models are set to change everything. This example is powered by Gemini Diffusion, this isn’t about assistance or augmentation. It’s about expressing intent and watching fully-formed code appear. Reuven Cohen
I hear a lot of programmers saying that you can't write "real software" with vibe coding tools and techniques. That is a lie. Those programmers are in denial, and they have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Landon Blake
In this deep dive, explore Andrej Karpathy's groundbreaking "vibe coding" concept and Sudheer Bandaru explains why most engineering organizations are measuring AI success completely wrong. Hivel
How do you see vibe coding fitting into the future of software development? Rahul Mishra
Vibe Developments
I just asked Canva to create a kids' game with this prompt: "Create a colorful, interactive kids' game presentation titled 'Animany) going on a journey through 5 scenes (forest, river, mountain, cave, and meadow)…” Miloš G.
This example is powered by Gemini Diffusion, this isn’t about assistance or augmentation. It’s about expressing intent and watching fully-formed code appear. Reuven Cohen
Nate Herkelman built a faceless Shorts machine for $0.75/video using AI tools in n8n Charly Wargnier
Derek Cheung created an agentic workflow for automated fundamental stock analysis using SEC 10K data. Built visually with no-code/low code approach with n8n
How to do a quick AI SEO audit for your brand using Gumloop - & why it's more important than ever to utilize SEO as a part of your marketing strategy (hint LLMs need to pull data from somewhere...) Brandon Doyle
Jelani Abdus-Salaam shares how they were able to build an AI agent that creates daily content from their existing material (n8n + Cloudflare + AutoRAG setup)
This is absolutely mind-blowing... I built an AI Agent and apps with ONE CLICK using n8n and Gemini app Julian Goldie
Ignacio Velásquez Franco built an n8n AI Agent that picks the best LLM for best performance & cost.
This Reddit scraping workflow with Gumloop is wild. And most no-code builders aren’t using it. No scraping APIs. No code. Just Gumloop. Mike Futia
🚀 I've been doing VibeCoding, and it's incredible how much you can get done so quickly. In just a day, I built: ✅ A React web app ✅ A Node.js backend ✅ A Terraform deployment setup ✅ A data pipeline using AWS services like SQS, Lambda, EventBridge, and API Gateway Taleev Aalam
Wanted to build something small.Ended up building something kind of powerful. The result? A working Apify Actor that can connect to almost any API. 🌱Hamid ABBOU
Vibe Tools
Emergent is your AI-powered CTO delivering full-stack, production-ready products without developers. It thinks in systems, not snippets — transforming ideas into market-ready products. Y Combinator Mukund Jha
Cursor’s new “Background Agents” capability is an interesting step toward distributed, asynchronous coding. Reuven Cohen
Imagine this: You’ve got a big idea, but turning it into a product feels like wrestling with deadlines, bugs, and boilerplate. That’s where BLACKBOX.AI comes in — your autonomous coding agent, trusted by millions of developers. Nayeem Sheikh
Here’s what you can do with Lleverage : 1) Build custom AI workflows from a single prompt 2) Choose output formats: Chat App, Form App, or API 3) Connect across 2,000+ tools: Notion, SharePoint, Slack, HubSpot & more 4) Preview and refine the logic, or let AI handle it 5) Embed automations inside your existing tools. No code. No dev time. No friction. From idea → AI automation → working tool. Andrew Bolis
Vibe Talks
AI makes great engineers exponentially better, but it can't make non-engineers into engineers. Jerry Koske
I just thought it was called figuring $hit 💩 out as I go….Apparently what I’ve been doing has a name 🤖Vibe Coding🤖 Tim Golden
Is it ethical to use AI in classrooms? How is AI reshaping software development at work, and is “vibe coding” the future of programming? It was an honor to share the stage with Chee Wei Tan, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, and Michal Polanowski, MBA, PhD . Sunil Sivadas, Ph.D.
Old Code Runs The World — That’s Why Programmers Matter. First, high level code replaced low level code. Now, AI is doing the same to high-level code. Christopher Okhravi
“I’ve vibe coded a little too close to the sun before.” - Rizel Scarlett. If you’ve been using agents, Claude, Goose, or MCP - this talk is worth your time.Rizel breaks down what vibe coding actually means, how it works, and what can happen when things get out of hand.👇
Vibe Community is growing this week!
 | Andrew BolisInfluencer (550+ Brand Collabs) 🧠 AI & Marketing Consultant 📢 Fo… |
 | Nayeem SheikhAI enthusiast | Sharing insights on AI, tech tools, and no-code… |
 | Charly WargnierEx-Streamlit / Snowflake • Sharing insights on AI agents, LLMs,… |
 | Nate HerkelmanCo-Founder @ TrueHorizon AI | Scale Without Increasing Headcount |
 | Reuven Cohen♾️ Agentic Engineer / aiCTO / Coach |
 | TJ PitreFounder & CEO at Southleft | Scalable Web Applications & Design… |
 | Ala StolpnikFounder/CEO of Wisary - aligning PMs and engineers to ship the r… |
 | Igor StimoliAgile Delivery Manager, Scrum Master & Kanban Practitioner | Agi… |
 | Morten Rand-HendriksenFind me at Web Summit Vancouver | Principal Instructor at Linked… |
 | Siddharth ChopdaDev @SublimeX || Shipped 7 AI (SaaS) MVPs → Beta @Madeline&Co ||… |
 | Colin GillinghamAI Product Manager @ HubSpot | AI & Data Enrichment |
 | Rafał TruszkowskiCode as craft. DEI as compass. Callous disregard and malicious i… |
 | Sam SternService Design & Customer Experience @ LinkedIn | CX Patterns Po… |
Ajai ChaudharyChief Technology & Artificial Intelligence Officer - Energy & Re… |
 | Jonathan ChalkerVice President, Product and Experience at Jackson Hewitt Tax Ser… |
Landon BlakeLand surveyor working hard to facilitate smooth real estate tran… |
 | HivelSoftware Development |
 | iQuasar SoftwareSoftware Development |
 | Mukund JhaFounder & CEO, Emergent |
 | Rahul MishraBuilding @EuphoriaState | Making Healthy Living Rewarding | On a… |
 | Tim GoldenI’m on a mission to help MSPs turn compliance into a revenue gen… |
Sunil Sivadas, Ph.D.Director of AI R&D | Adjunct Associate Professor | Distinguished… |
 | Chee Wei TanComputer science professor |
 | Roy Ka-Wei LeeAssistant Professor at SUTD | Smart Nation Fellow | Adjunct Seni… |
 | Michal Polanowski, MBA, PhDHead of Generative AI. Building Agentic Solutions. |
 | Brandon DoyleFounder of Wallaroo Media - one of the premiere eCommerce market… |
 | Jelani Abdus-SalaamCo-founder Best of AI | Marketer & Serial Creator | $1m Sold in… |
 | Julian GoldieI Help Websites Get More Leads, Traffic and Sales with SEO | 💪 D… |
 | Ignacio Velásquez FrancoBest Notion Creator in LATAM | No-code Development | Automation… |
 | Mike FutiaAI Automation Made Easy |
 | Christopher OkhraviI help programmers pick effective abstractions. 150k+ followers… |
 | Rizel ScarlettTech Lead for Open Source DevRel at Block | Artificial Intellige… |
 | Taleev AalamSenior FullStack Engineer @ Mondia | Developing scalable microse… |
 | 🌱Hamid ABBOUData-driven GTM Engineer | helping B2B generate sales pipeline f… |
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1moLove this take and agree that the key is turbo charging what you can without compromising what you shouldn’t. What about continued use of vibe coding for non-technical founders and disigners to contribute to the project in a whole new way? Developers can build on from their work as opposed to starting from scratch
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2moI can see that happen when you are dealing with big and complex builds. I am just excited to get my personal inventory app up and running. For me personally vibe coding is a huge thing.
I help programmers pick effective abstractions. 150k+ followers on YouTube. PhD.
2moThanks for including me in this roundup. I’m so happy to see that there are so many of us with aligned thinking.
Fractional CMO @ Ghostbuddy.io at Ghostbuddy.io
2moI treat vibe builds like disposable sketches: if the code lives past day seven, we refactor or rewrite. Seven days means fresh repo, real tests, README a human owns. That habit keeps speed high and debt low. What's your trigger for calling 'prototype done' and starting real engineering?