"You are wrong, Pawel. You can vibe code a successful product without any technical skills. Here's one example."
I liked the challenge, especially since it referenced a source. What I thought would be a short comment evolved into a series of articles.
This post is the last one (or at least I believe so at the time of writing), and I will focus on the product management side. Well, just one aspect of it.
The perception that the pace of shipping features (or building in general) is the bottleneck of product development is a misconception.
Ultimately, that's what vibe coding tools offer: we can build it for you with no engineering team whatsoever. In fact, the original challenge was worded along the same lines:
"I'm working with people and I've seen others, who only used AI to create a valid tech business, scaling it up beyond a million dollars, before they hired any software engineer."
Let’s unpack it, then.
Prototyping versus Building
I'm a fan of vibe coding when it comes to prototyping. It is a fabulous tool to learn whether what we ideate is desirable. The first thing about prototypes, though? They are disposable.
Even if we validate that we were right and our idea works (which happens maybe once every ten attempts), the prototype is still disposable.
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