Building Software Beyond Writing Code Takes Effort

Vibe coding is easy. But the hard part of building useful software isn’t coding - it’s the distribution, trust, and scale. Jordi: “You can’t vibe-code PayPal. They have half a billion users.” Mitchell Green of agrees: “Building code has never been the actual hard thing about a software company." "You build a piece of software. Then you have to sell the software. Then you have to maintain the software. Then you have to add features to the software. Then you have to connect it with other systems. Those systems change. You have to have user permissioning. This stuff is really complex." "I’m sorry - the dude sitting in Silicon Valley in a shed on Sand Hill or in San Francisco who’s going to vibe-code their way… how about the other 10,000 software engineers Salesforce has, or the 3,000 software engineers at Workday? Are they just sitting around on their thumbs? No. Of course, they’re going to try to innovate."