The CEO told the podcast Sourcery over the weekend that he’s been vibe coding, the practice of using AI to write code using natural language, to express new ideas to his firm’s engineers. Siemiatkowski claimed that he went from being a “business person” to an amateur developer thanks to vibe coding, allowing him to come up with a prototype in just 20 minutes. As 404 Media reported last week, freelancers are joking online about having become “vibe coding cleanup specialists” — and cashing checks from resulting gigs — in an ironic outcome of a technology meant to reduce the workload of developers. AI coding assistant company Replit staffer Matt Palmer found that well over 100 Lovable apps easily allowed hackers to get away with highly sensitive information. More on vibe coding: Companies Are Discovering a Grim Problem With “Vibe Coding”