[denkmoon]

don't worry that we got the wrong requirements from the customer, chose an impossible deadline, priced it wrong, and there's no market, we can just vibe code our way out of it??

[tylerrobinson]

The point is that even in case of total product management failure, the cost of failing is much lower both in time and money.

[denkmoon]

I don't see it. In my experience with AI/Claude so far, building something with AI then changing direction half way through is a great way to generate garbage structure and garbage code. It takes time to dig yourself out of that hole, possibly more than if you had just slowly built by hand from the beginning all. Maybe I'm holding it wrong.

[habinero]

It might make failure faster, but that doesn't mean it's cheaper.

Users will churn quick if you aren't reliable or useful and a security incident can be company-ending for a startup.

[jama211]

In an odd way you’re absolutely proving the article’s point. The requirements, deadline, pricing, idea, implementation, customer story, these are the things that matter and are hard. Compared to that, code is easy.