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.

Israeli tech founder Maor Shlomo, whose vibe coding startup Base44 sold for over $80 million when it was acquired by Wix, said on the podcast “20VC” that “it’s relatively easy to create a vibe coding tool.”

“Every feature that we put out, we know that’s going to take either a few weeks or a few months for competitor to copy,” he complained.

First flagged by Business Insider, the founder is arguably the poster child of the financial feeding frenzy that’s come to define the AI era. In another podcast recorded in July, Shlomo claimed he used AI to write “90 percent of

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