kian

Vibe coding makes it much easier for non-technical founders to build a first version, test an idea, and get real users without hiring a full engineering team.

But what happens when the product starts working?

You have users. Maybe even paying customers. People depend on it now. But the app starts slowing down, bugs become harder to fix, and adding new features feels risky because the codebase was built mainly to validate the idea.

At that point, the question is no longer: Can this be built?

I build faster now with AI than I ever could by hand. Things that used to take me a weekend now just take a prompt, and a lot of that is stuff I genuinely couldn't have written cleanly myself.

So part of me looks at non-technical founders asking whether they should learn to code and thinks the honest answer might be no, or at least not the way I did it. Spending six months grinding through tutorials to write code an AI will write better feels like a waste of time.

We all have that one repetitive thing. Takes 15 30 minutes. Feels like it could be automated. But you just keep doing it by hand.
Every Friday, I manually copy data from three different dashboards into a Google Sheet, reformat the dates, and email it to my team. Takes 25 minutes. I've told myself "I'll automate this" for six months. Still doing it by hand.

What's yours?