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This Y Combinator startup just raised $13.5 million to stop developers from tokenmaxxing
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Curative CEO says company ditched a $600k-a-year Salesforce contract after vibe-coding a CRM in 2 months
Curative CEO Fred Turner said his company ended its $600,000 annual contract with Salesforce after vibecoding its own tools.
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Emergent's CEO shares what he looks for in developers in the AI era
Mukund Jha said he expects demand for software to "exponentially increase."
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Live Q&A: How vibe coding is transforming tech — and tech jobs
The CEO of vibe-coding startup Emergent, Mukund Jha, joins BI's Dan DeFrancesco to discuss his company's exponential growth.
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Meet the vibe coders who want to be the 'MrBeast' of apps
A new class of content creators is emerging in the era of vibe coding. Danger Testing raised $2.6 million to capitalize.
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My colleague wanted a nerdy, niche tool for his MacBook. Codex whipped it up in minutes.
Business Insider's Stephen Council used OpenAI Codex to build a custom Mac clipboard app in minutes—no coding required.
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This fitness startup vibe coded an app to make you walk before you can scroll
If doomscrolling is keeping you stuck to a chain, a French fitness app vibe coded a feature that locks your social media till you get your steps in.
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Want a software engineering job? You'll need more than coding skills in the AI era.
Software engineers need more than coding skills to get hired today. Interviews now test judgment, AI skills, and problem solving.
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There are 3 telltale signs that you used AI to make your app, and they aren't pretty
In a sea of cookie-cutter vibe-coded apps, it's getting harder to stand out. Here's what you can change in yours to set yourself apart.
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We pitted Base 44's new AI model against Anthropic's to build the same website. One was faster.
Base44 said its new AI model aims to be faster, burn through fewer credits, and produce better designs than frontier models. We put it to the test.
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Bootcamps, work trials, token burn: Inside the recruiting practices at the hottest AI coding startups
At Replit, X profiles have become the "main medium" for recruiting, said the company's chief people officer.
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Base44's CEO says the company built its own model to stop churning out AI-slop designs
The startup launched its LLM, Base 1, to deliver better designs and user experience than frontier models.
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How software engineers really feel about AI coding
The discourse around AI often focuses on those who entirely embrace — or deeply despise — the tech. For engineers, the truth can be more complicated.
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OpenAI teases a new device for vibe coders that looks like a mini keyboard
The teaser video shows a keyboard-like device slowly flashing a rainbow of colors, followed by two logos: OpenAI and Work Louder.
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Vibe coding is being called the greatest unlock for non-techies. These 9 startups are raising billions.
These entrants are competing with far bigger players, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft, that make their own AI-powered coding tools.
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Can you vibe code an entire search engine? This ex-Googler tried.
Hugh Williams used Claude Code to create a search engine, Zettair, indexing 1.5 million Wikipedia articles without writing code.
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AI writes a lot of software. Now, human code review is starting to disappear.
AI coding agents like Cursor are increasingly trusted to work autonomously, with a rise in AI-generated code reaching production directly.
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AI is writing almost all startup code. That's creating a new problem.
Business Insider surveyed dozens of founders to understand how coding has changed with AI. Speed is a double-edged sword because there is so much slop.
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The hidden cost of the AI coding boom: workplace paralysis
New AI tools are released near-constantly. Some developers are invigorated, while others feel overwhelmed just trying to keep up.
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