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Never wrote a line of code, now a $6.6B unicorn : the vibe coder - Lazar Jovanovic [Lovable]

from BILLIONS · host Guillaume Moubeche

Lazar Jovanovic is the world's first official "Vibe Coding Engineer." Working at Lovable (the AI startup that hit $100M ARR in just 8 months) Lazar is proving that the future of software engineering isn't about syntax; it's about taste and intent.In this episode, we dive into how Lazar ships production-grade apps for a $6.6B unicorn without writing a single line of manual code. We discuss the "SaaS-pocalypse," why ignorance is a superpower in the AI era, and how you can transition from a traditional role to a Vibe Coder.TIMELINE : 00:00 - Meet the world's first "vibe coding" engineer01:06 - Why "not knowing how to code" is your new superpower04:43 - Is software maintenance dead in the age of AI?09:15 - The Lovable story: hitting $100M ARR in 8 months15:42 - The end of bootstrapping? Vibe coding vs. the old way24:16 - SaaS-pocalypse: the future of software interfaces29:47 - Beyond code: the only metrics that matter for AI products37:01 - Will enterprises ever adopt AI-generated code?44:35 - The "Aladdin & Genie" trick for mastering AI prompts56:05 - How to become a vibe coder (no permission required)REFERENCES : Warren MasonKurt Cobain Pieter Levels.Marc LouVictor Wembanyama Elena VernaJony IveLovable Claude OpenAIShopify Stripe TechCrunch Salesforce HubSpot 28 Days of LovableShe BuildsAladdin and the Genie

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