"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 the code" for Base44. Over the last three months prior to the acquisition, he recalled, he hadn't written "a single line of front-end code" himself."
"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. "It's very, very, very hard to create a platform that could help people build products they'll actually use, that are functional, that are complex enough for real-world use cases," Shlomo admitted on 20VC."
Vibe coding can drastically lower the barrier to creating software by using AI to generate large portions of code. Maor Shlomo sold Base44 to Wix for over $80 million after using AI to write most of the product, including claiming 90 percent of the code and no front-end code written in the final months before acquisition. Competitors can replicate features within weeks or months, making feature-level advantage fragile. Building robust, functional platforms that handle complex real-world use cases remains difficult. A broad breakdown in the scarcity of intelligence could threaten long-term innovation and reduce startup defensibility.
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