In an era of unprecedented tech hype, one AI startup founder has a warning to those who would follow his footsteps: vibe coding a double-edged sword that makes it trivially easy for competitors to copy your brilliant company. In another podcast recorded in July, Shlomo claimed he used AI to write “90 percent of the code” for Base44. But while vibe coding is easy — all it takes is an idea, if Shlomo’s to be taken at face value — building actual software infrastructure isn’t so simple. The founder’s sentiments echo those of Andrej Karpathy, the OpenAI cofounder who coined the infamous term “vibe coding” earlier this year. “I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy-paste stuff, and it mostly works,” Karpathy wrote.