Vibe Coding2026-06-27 · source-backed
Stratechery runs a hands-on vibe-coding adventure.
Story
Ben Thompson's "Summer Vibes" leads with a practitioner narrative of building end-to-end with AI tools, alongside an Apple-in-Europe read. (Stratechery) When an analyst whose whole job is stepping back to think about strategy spends his column on the build experience itself, that's a signal the orchestration-over-typing shift has reached the people who write about shifts. The piece is the Shopify thesis lived from the keyboard.
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