Vibe coding has made it to the C-suite, and tech executives say it is saving them huge amounts of time.
Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski has never been a programmer, but thanks to AI’s rapid development he is now taking the initiative to code his own projects. Vibe coding, which refers to using AI to program using natural language, is helping even non-technical workers spin up ideas.
“Rather than disturbing my poor engineers and product people with what is half good ideas and half bad ideas, now I test it myself,” he recently said on the Sourcery podcast. “I come say, ‘Look, I’ve actually made this work, this is how it works, what do you think, could we do it this way?'”
Siemiatkowski cofounded his buy-now-pay-later platform in 2005, and said for the past 20 years he’s been doin