0 days
To hire one developer. One.
HackerRank 2025
0.0%
Of projects ship on time, on budget, on value
McKinsey & Oxford
$0.0T
Wasted globally because you can't find devs
IDC
0%
Over budget. Every. Single. Time.
Standish Group
The numbers don't lie
Why the old way is dead
83.9%
of projects fail
17% threaten the company's existence
Standish Group
$3.5M/yr
Solo dev revenue
Zero employees, 90% profit margins
levelsio
81 days
To hire one dev
While burning $112K per empty seat
HackerRank 2025
2wk → 4hr
AI dev sprint
Complex ML model built in half a day
Sourcegraph
189%
Over budget
Every. Single. Time.
Standish Group
95%
AI-generated code
In the latest YC W2025 batch
Garry Tan / CNBC
0.5%
Hit all targets
On time, on budget, on value
McKinsey & Oxford
30%
More productive
Same devs + AI tools
Booking.com
83.9%
of projects fail
17% threaten the company's existence
Standish Group
$3.5M/yr
Solo dev revenue
Zero employees, 90% profit margins
levelsio
81 days
To hire one dev
While burning $112K per empty seat
HackerRank 2025
2wk → 4hr
AI dev sprint
Complex ML model built in half a day
Sourcegraph
189%
Over budget
Every. Single. Time.
Standish Group
95%
AI-generated code
In the latest YC W2025 batch
Garry Tan / CNBC
0.5%
Hit all targets
On time, on budget, on value
McKinsey & Oxford
30%
More productive
Same devs + AI tools
Booking.com
Wake up
Your hiring pipeline costs more than the software it produces
The hiring pipeline is a money pit. The project timelines are a joke. And deep down, you already know this
0.0%
of projects fail
“17% go so badly, they threaten the very existence of the company”
Standish Group / McKinsey
0%
over budget
“And you'll still get 56% less value than what was promised”
McKinsey & Oxford University
$0K
burned per empty seat
“While your recruiter ghosts candidates for 81 days straight”
HackerRank 2025
0%
of the day is coding
“The rest? Meetings, tickets, Slack, and pretending to look busy”
Atlassian 2025
Meanwhile
One senior dev with AI is eating your lunch
Not juniors prompting ChatGPT. Seasoned engineers who added AI to a decade of experience
$3.5M/yr
One dev. Zero employees
90% profit margins. Your 15-person team wishes they could compete
levelsio
2wk → 4hr
Your sprint is their lunch break
Complex ML model built in half a day instead of two weeks
Sourcegraph
30% more
Same devs. Just gave them AI
Not from hiring. Not from overtime. Just from using AI properly
Booking.com
95% AI
$10M revenue. Under 10 people
They're raising less and growing faster than you
YC W2025 / CNBC
Side by side
The old way vs. the obvious way
Not beginners with a prompt. Experienced developers who multiplied their output with AI
Traditional
Vibe coder
Time to hire
81 days
Browse today
Team size needed
10-50 engineers
1 senior dev + AI
Recruitment cost
$50K-$200K
$0 to browse
Time actually coding
16% of the day
AI handles the rest
Project delivery
45% over budget
Ship in days
Success rate
0.5% hit all targets
Production-ready code
$3.5M/yr
Solo dev, zero employees
levelsio
2wk → 4hr
ML model, built in 4 hours
Sourcegraph
0%
AI code in YC W2025
Garry Tan / CNBC
The people who get it
They're not whispering. They're shouting
“The age of vibe coding is here”
Garry Tan
CEO, Y Combinator
“We're going to see ten-person billion dollar companies pretty soon”
Sam Altman
CEO, OpenAI
“There's a new kind of coding I call vibe coding — you fully give in to the vibes and forget that the code even exists”
Andrej Karpathy
Co-founder, OpenAI
“This isn't a fleeting trend — it's the mainstream way of coding. If you don't keep up, you'll be left behind”
Garry Tan
CEO, Y Combinator
“There is a betting pool for the first one-person billion dollar company. Unimaginable without AI — now it will happen”
Sam Altman
CEO, OpenAI
“You don't need a team of 50 or 100 engineers anymore”
Garry Tan
CEO, Y Combinator
“I have engineers within Anthropic who say 'I don't write any code anymore. I just let the model write the code'”
Dario Amodei
CEO, Anthropic
“In 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code”
Dario Amodei
CEO, Anthropic
“The age of vibe coding is here”
Garry Tan
CEO, Y Combinator
“We're going to see ten-person billion dollar companies pretty soon”
Sam Altman
CEO, OpenAI
“There's a new kind of coding I call vibe coding — you fully give in to the vibes and forget that the code even exists”
Andrej Karpathy
Co-founder, OpenAI
“This isn't a fleeting trend — it's the mainstream way of coding. If you don't keep up, you'll be left behind”
Garry Tan
CEO, Y Combinator
“There is a betting pool for the first one-person billion dollar company. Unimaginable without AI — now it will happen”
Sam Altman
CEO, OpenAI
“You don't need a team of 50 or 100 engineers anymore”
Garry Tan
CEO, Y Combinator
“I have engineers within Anthropic who say 'I don't write any code anymore. I just let the model write the code'”
Dario Amodei
CEO, Anthropic
“In 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code”
Dario Amodei
CEO, Anthropic
