Rohan Gayen

Okay so quick context.

I m an ex investment banker. Left my comfy IB job last year. Since then I ve been vibecoding and learning how to actually build stuff.

Built a bunch of tools over the last 3 months, but one question kept bugging me:
will capital markets / VCs / gov programs even take vibecoded products seriously?

Initially I assumed no one would.
Then I thought what do I even lose? Worst case I learn something.

Every company has its own vibe, but I ve noticed a pattern: the bigger the company, the less they tend to do for employees around Christmas.

In smaller teams (or startups), it s usually way cosier people actually try to keep the holiday spirit alive (in our country, that often means a Christmas bonus, extra salary, vitamin packs, food hampers, etc.).

Is there something you feel you missed and if you could go back, would you make the same decision, or choose differently?

I ve only recently started my professional journey, working at a startup that builds an app. I don t have a long or glamorous career yet, nor a lot of experience. But one thing I do regret is not trying to work earlier, and instead spending most of my time buried in academic studies.

When I finally entered the workplace, I realized that much of what I learned in school was no longer aligned with the market or the speed at which things evolve. The job required soft skills that textbooks and theory never taught. I learned quickly that without self-learning and constant adaptation, it s easy to fall behind.