Why Did a $10 Billion Startup Let Me Vibe-Code for Them—and Why Did I Love It?
Sitting a few feet away Simon last, one of the three COFOUNDERS OF THE IDEA. He is Gangly and shy, an engineer who is managementible responsibility to focus to focus on being a “super ic” -an individual participant. He stood to shake my hand, and I thank him awkward because me begging code. Simon returned to his laptop where he was an AI took supervise him. Later he would tell me that the use of AI Coding apps as managing a bunch of internships.
Since 2022, the Notion app has had an AI WIESTURES TO TASK USE THEM ATTENTION. Now the company this is like a “agent,”, a kind of AI, that will in the background in your name if you will work other tasks as you are addressing other tasks. To pull this off, the Human Engineers must write a lot of code.
They open the cursor and select which of several AI models they want to tap. Most engineers I'm chatting at my attempts that prefers preference of preference, or they used directly the Claude code app immediately. After choosing their fighter, the engineers dropping their AI to build a new thing or repair a function. The human programs than debugs and tests and tests the output or needed as needed – although the AIS help with this before moving the code to production.
On his firesal core is generative Ai huge. The theoretical savings come in the currency of time, which is to say, if the Kofon has helped, he could go to the Jazz floor of his groundstrew of his brand of the ground store office and will leave. Ivan loves Jazz music. In reality he completes the time by working more. Four days's fantasy of four days just will remain.
My work week at the noi was just two days, the ultimate code sprint. (In return for full access to their light, agreed to identify only Rank and file in the first name.) My first order was to repay a mermaid diagram in the Union app. Two engineers, quinn and modes, tell me that this diagrams exist as SVG files in ideas and, despite saved graphics, cannot be written down or zoomed as a jpeg file. As a result, the text in Mermaid diagrames on the idea often is not readable.
Quinn Slid's laptop to me. He opened the Cursor app and ready, Claude rings. For vegetables, he rolls through a part of the notion's code basis. “So, the Base code code? Did a lot of files. You probably, even as an engineer, would not even know where to go,” he said, referring me like an engineer. “But we will ignore everything. We just go to ask the AI on the sidebar to do that.”
His Vibe Coding strategy, Quinn explained, was often to ask the AI: Hey, why is this thing the way it is? The question forces a little bit of their own research, and the answer helps inform the prompt that we would write the human engineers. After “thinking,” replace us, through flow-lines of text, that Mermaid-diamair names are that, among other, click not integrated with an included full screen. Sure.
