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Short, mean, and true. Notes from the front line of vibe coding
·5 minSolo founders are outshipping 50-person startups. Here's how
One founder with Cursor, Claude Code and a deploy pipeline can match the weekly output of a fifty-person startup. The math is brutal and public
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·6 minThe 10-to-1 rule: replace ten mid-level devs with one senior
One senior vibe coder with AI ships what ten mid-level engineers cannot. Here is the math, the staffing chart, and the awkward conversation it forces
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·4 minThe avocado problem: when vibe coding ships demos, not products
Fiverr's vibe coding category is full of avocado-toast UIs that crumble the moment a real user touches them. Here's why it happens and how to spot it
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·4 minTrust in AI code dropped from 72% to 60%. Juniors broke it
Developer favorability toward AI fell 12 points in a year. The fix is not more guardrails. The fix is not letting juniors merge what they did not read
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·5 minYour CTO is hiding behind process. Here is how to tell
When the engineering output drops, weak CTOs invent more process. Here are the signs your CTO is managing meetings instead of shipping product
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