With improved generative models now being widely available, we re reaching a point where we can get full front-end code and simple functioning code for apps from a single prompt. What are the factors that determine whether development roles can be replaced by models? What s our added value as humans?
Hey everyone! I had a massive reality check this month and wanted to see if other founders have experienced this.
We use Stripe for billing and HubSpot as our CRM. Our dashboard looked incredibly healthy, MRR was growing, and deals were marked as "Active." But out of curiosity, we cross-referenced our active paying users with our actual product analytics (Mixpanel/PostHog).
Turns out, almost 12% of our paying customers hadn't logged into the app in over 20 days. They were "ghosts." Because their Stripe subscription hadn't failed yet, our CRM was completely blind to the drop-off, and our CS team was doing nothing to save them.
We ended up having to build a native bridge to pipe usage data directly into HubSpot to fix this.
Setting IDEs aside for this one - Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code + Copilot live in a different conversation. I'm specifically curious about CLI-and-agent territory.
A year ago the answer for most of us was straightforward: open Claude Code or Codex, talk to it, ship code. That CLI was the entry point.
Is it truly vibe coding if there aren't tunes making the vibes...well...vibey. Thought it'd be fun to put together a YouTube playlist of what everyone listens to when building! I'll take all the links and make a playlist on YouTube after a couple of days :) Just drop the link and tag the tool that you mostly use. I'll start! I vibe with Black Coffee and mostly use @Cursor!
We ran a benchmark to see how well @Claude Code actually refactors legacy code alone and then redid the same test, but this time with code-health guidance via MCP server.
To limit any vendor bias, we used a public data set of 25,000 source code files from competitive programming, including carefully crafted unit tests.
We assessed agent correctness by running those tests.
We measured the Code Health impact using CodeScene.
(See our research Code for Machines, Not just Humans for more details on the methodology and data)
Claude Code that was MCP-guided achieved 2 5x more more improvements in Code Health compared to unguided refactoring.
As a data engineer who has little experience in full-stack software development, I ve been experimenting with vibe coding tools to move fast in the early stages.
My flow looked like this:
Prototyped the main UI in V0 (after 300+ iterations/conversations back and forth)
As an SAP ABAP Developer, I had app ideas sitting in my head for years. Before AI, the learning curve for mobile development felt impossibly steep. Now? I shipped my iOS app in weeks.
But here's my honest question:
How many of us vibe coders are actually building sustainable products?
I m thinking of building a simple, unbiased comparison platform for products, services, tools even technical stuff like frameworks, APIs, and AI tools to help you decide faster with clear side-by-side insights.
Personally, I often find myself deep in Amazon reviews, YouTube videos, and scattered blog posts when trying to choose something new. While some comparison sites exist, I ve never found a complete or truly comprehensive solution. The same goes for developers when exploring new frameworks or libraries with similar alternatives, a quick, focused comparison could really help clarify things.
Before going further, I d love to hear from you: Would you find this useful? Your feedback will help shaping what I build next.
Might anyone have some open URLs of their Vibe coded prototypes on Lovable / V0 / Bolt / Figma Make or Claude Code? I'm looking for some prototypes without logins to test a new version of our product which we'll be announcing next week. I'd like to check it on some existing Vibes.
Bonus points if you have a task for me to user test for you, I'd gladly share feedback.
