Vibe coding is a loose name for what is happening right now with Base44, Lovable, Bolt and more. I and confident we are going to transition from Vibe Coding to PM Coding in the next few months - where clearly describing a fully fledged work/life use case, and implementing it by product managing an AI developer.
I’m looking forward to seeing the “PM maintenance and dependency upgrade” part of this (it’ll break in unexpected ways and the PM won’t fix it).
Base44 & Lovable in their current form are already much more of a No Code platform than anything resembling coding. It isn't frictionless to intervene as a developer in the produced artifacts, and it seems discouraged by the workflows. This also makes it (at least currently) painfully slow and buggy to fix even trivial things that a developer armed with Cursor (or even "manually" :) would handle almost immediately. Using Lovable as a Front End developer when you build the backend with Cursor and control the produced API, currently produces much more robust and actually maintainable results. Completely agree with your projection. Looking forward to see how these tools evolve!
Waiting to see git projects with prompts only. Code will be soon deprecated.
Vibe coding is a fascinating shift—blurring the lines between human intuition and AI-driven execution. As code becomes more about shaping intent rather than writing syntax, how do we ensure AI-native development remains structured yet innovative?
While that is mostly true, it's really probably for only the ultra-ICs. Most PMs still barely use chatGPT/LLMs for more than just basic tasks. That's true of most technical people in general! Living here on LinkedIn gives the impression that everyone is up-to-date with the latest in AI. That said... it's literally some of what we're working on...
Vibe coding feels like 'move fast, break vibes'—fun until debugging turns into a séance. 😂 But PM coding? That’s just managing an AI dev who still needs constant hand-holding.
Or... we enter the "Vibe-age" The period of time after the 4th industrial revolution where human creativity explodes. Knowledge work becomes play and human productivity is mainly focused on expressing taste, clarifying intentions and more precisely crafting complete experiences (at first purely digital).
We're already there. I generated this app for a friend this morning with a single prompt, shorter than a tweet. *fully-functioning*. Also, consuming alcohol is bad for your health.
How do you see the transition going from a PM running a PoC to a business? How would those companies go beyond vibe-coding $20 a month to enterprise grade software companies? (For example, Figma taking the hype generated by Bolt and make the enterprise play)
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1dHave you used those tools? I have used Lovable and Bolt. I would strongly advise you to put an experienced human developer betweem the PM and the tool, unless the PM has a strong, hands-on dev skillset themselves. Otherwise, prepare for lots of errors and some very spaghettified code when you move beyond simple prototypes. The human developer can drive the tool directly and still get a lot of value and increased efficiency,