maintain: you can't vibe trust

Show Notes

An interview candidate asked: "What makes your product safe from someone vibe coding a competitor?" The honest answer was: nothing stops them. This episode is the full version of that answer.

I walk through what vibe coding actually gets you (a version of the thing, not understanding), why that gap is survivable in consumer software and fatal in regulated domains, and three companies that found out the hard way, including one that had forty years of institutional credibility and lost it in forty-four hours. The point is not that incumbents are safe. It is that nobody is, and the ones that last are the ones that treat that as a reason to keep working.