> A 12-day unsupervised "experiment" in production?
It was a 12 day experiment to see what he could learn about vibe coding. He started from scratch.
Your post is unreasonably presumptive and cynical. Jason Lemkin was Tweeting the experiment from the start. He readily admitted his own limitations as a non-programmer. He was partially addressing the out of control hype for vibe coding by demonstrating that non-technical people cannot actually vibe code SaaS products without software engineers.
The product wasn’t some SaaS with a lot of paying customers. The production DB was just his production environment. He was showing that the vibe coding process deleted a DB that it shouldn’t have.
This guy is basically on the side of the HN commenters on vibe coding’s abilities, but he took it one step further and demonstrated it with a real experiment that led to real problems. Yet people are trying to dog pile on him as the bad guy.
The experiment seems fun and harmless enough (maybe even useful), but if the experiment was harmless fun, then it's also a bit misleading (if not dishonest) to characterize the database as "production" for anything. (That may be the fault of the press here rather than Lemkin, idk.)
It was a 12 day experiment to see what he could learn about vibe coding. He started from scratch.
Your post is unreasonably presumptive and cynical. Jason Lemkin was Tweeting the experiment from the start. He readily admitted his own limitations as a non-programmer. He was partially addressing the out of control hype for vibe coding by demonstrating that non-technical people cannot actually vibe code SaaS products without software engineers.
The product wasn’t some SaaS with a lot of paying customers. The production DB was just his production environment. He was showing that the vibe coding process deleted a DB that it shouldn’t have.
This guy is basically on the side of the HN commenters on vibe coding’s abilities, but he took it one step further and demonstrated it with a real experiment that led to real problems. Yet people are trying to dog pile on him as the bad guy.