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📝 article feed.thoughtbot.com · September 8, 2026

When to vibe code an app and when to hire someone

I think you should vibe code your app. At least at first. LLMs have made it incredibly cheap to turn an idea into something you can use. That’s especially exciting for ideas that would have never survived the old cost of software development. Every company has things that might be useful to build someday, but probably aren’t worth putting six people on for three months just to find out. Now you can find out for virtually nothing. Where companies get into trouble is assuming that because AI ma...

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