Neal Freiman

operation is going i was absolutely glued to this website called plow nyc and did you see this toby no see this is the difference between you and me continue your story and then i have a little anecdote here okay so i was looking at plow nyc which is this very intricate map of new york city and it shows you exactly how many streets have been plowed in the last hour in the last two hours and maybe they took uh new york city took inspiration from toronto which has their own snowplow tracker called plow to which has a live map they also have this

vintage design around it that just makes it very pleasant to look at.

So these are how cities are sort of beefing up their capabilities, whether it's in the actual physical snowplows or the tech to give people more insight into travel and how their lives are going.

In the most bullish scenarios,

people say we're looking at the early signs of a new economy, an entrepreneurial boom we haven't seen the likes of since maybe the PC revolution a few decades ago.

Alexander Wang, who leads Meta's superintelligence efforts, he is one of the youngest self-made billionaires ever.

He said, actually, the Bill Gates's and the Mark Zuckerberg's of the world are right now, they're teenagers, you know, who are instead of doing their homework on a remote day are actually vibe coding new apps.

So the

potential here among people who are proponents of vibe coding is just absolutely revolutionary you're giving coding tools to people who who did not know how to code earlier and you are basically teaching them a new language or allowing them to not learn a new language because that's really what's happening here because me or you or i like we don't know the language of coding so it was very inaccessible to us but now because of vibe coding we can just essentially type in

natural language prompts to all of these apps that are flooding the app store and elsewhere to say like build me a website i want x y and z build me an app that has this feature and we can just use english to code instead of using coding languages to code and you know among those who say vibe coding is bringing about a revolution you know that is what the potential is here

There are plenty of people who are pushing back on the potential for vibe coding to saying, hey, this is cool, but it's not actually as revolutionary as its proponents think.

They talk about the security flaws of a vibe coding app.

Like you're not going to push out a vibe coded app to somebody.

mass amount of users because they're just huge critical vulnerabilities that come with it.

You haven't you know, there aren't traditional software engineers working on this building in protections around cybersecurity.

They're saying this is less economic revolution and more just shifting where the hard work begins.

And they don't necessarily view the vibe coding as wiping out a class of software engineers because those will still be needed.

They say that you're not going to vibe code Slack or you're not going to vibe code Salesforce.

You're not going to vibe code these huge software companies that are feeling the pain on Wall Street right now under competition from vibe coding and chat GBT and other AI tools more broadly.

But that's the main argument here, that vibe coding can get you started.