I agree with you, James. People are all very pumped up about these new Vibe Coding tools, and justifiably so. It’s like any new product version 1.0; raw, limited, full of holes and problems. But, oh, the future is so exciting.
However, today’s reality for most startups should be that it's an excellent platform for validating an idea, but in most cases, not much more. This will change and change quickly. But for the moment, I do think we need a new acronym. An MVP implies you are creating a limited version of a new product; we should call something developed with Vibe Coding an MVE, a minimum viable experiment. An app that can be used to validate an idea before spending the time, money and effort developing a commercially viable solution.
The ability to use Vibe Coding for developing an MVE just might encourage more coders and indiehackers to embrace idea validation, and that would be a very good thing indeed.
I like your idea instead of vibe-coding in-production myth. It's absurd to think that clever prompts alone can create a billion-dollar product. I'd never trust it in production.
You may have picked a place in history for vibe-coding .
I agree with you, James. People are all very pumped up about these new Vibe Coding tools, and justifiably so. It’s like any new product version 1.0; raw, limited, full of holes and problems. But, oh, the future is so exciting.
However, today’s reality for most startups should be that it's an excellent platform for validating an idea, but in most cases, not much more. This will change and change quickly. But for the moment, I do think we need a new acronym. An MVP implies you are creating a limited version of a new product; we should call something developed with Vibe Coding an MVE, a minimum viable experiment. An app that can be used to validate an idea before spending the time, money and effort developing a commercially viable solution.
The ability to use Vibe Coding for developing an MVE just might encourage more coders and indiehackers to embrace idea validation, and that would be a very good thing indeed.
I like your idea instead of vibe-coding in-production myth. It's absurd to think that clever prompts alone can create a billion-dollar product. I'd never trust it in production.
You may have picked a place in history for vibe-coding .