Vibe Coding Goes Mainstream: Solo Founders Shipping Products in Weekends with AI
Andrej Karpathy's 'vibe coding' concept is now production-real: non-technical founders use Replit, Claude Code, Lovable, and Cursor to build and ship MVPs from plain English prompts. About 25% of current Y Combinator startups have almost entirely AI-generated codebases. For artists and creators who've never written code, this is the clearest signal yet that you can build your own tools, platforms, and products — no developer required.