Lovable's First Engineer Leaves to Found GetEnergy, Betting on AI-Driven Computer Use
On September 4, Emil Ahlbäck, the first engineer of Lovable, announced he was leaving to co-found GetEnergy (@getenergy) with friends, drawing congratulations from many industry figures. He is the only primary source for this event.
Confirmed
- Emil Ahlbäck himself announced his departure from Lovable and the founding of GetEnergy, aimed at changing how people interact with computers.
- His core thesis: AI is already powerful enough to handle most of the work people do on computers, yet almost no one actually works this way—the new company wants to fix that.
- According to a post by @etnshow, relayed by @gabriel1 and others, the co-founders include gabriel1 (Gabriel Gheorghiu) and dafant; the forwarded information also claims gabriel1 previously served as Lovable's CEO.
- A repost by @emilahlback adds that he wrote Lovable's earliest code and led its enterprise version.
Unconfirmed
- The claim that gabriel1 and dafant are "two former OpenAI employees" appears only in the forwarded scoop and has not been confirmed by the parties; whether gabriel1 was actually Lovable's CEO also awaits further disclosure.
Why it matters
- Lovable is a high-profile AI coding company; the departure of its first engineer shows core talent at leading AI application companies flowing toward new startup directions.
- GetEnergy's bet on "AI directly operating the computer to do work" targets a mode of working in the AI agent space that few have truly adopted, aiming at this gap if it succeeds.
2026-09-04 ~ 2026-09-04 · 5 related posts
Primary sources
- [source] Lovable's first engineer leaves to build AI-native computer-work startup — emilahlback · 2026-09-04
- Lovable's first engineer rejoins founder to build AI agent startup getenergy_ — emilahlback · 2026-09-04
- Lovable's first engineer leaves to found GetEnergy, betting AI can do most computer work — blixt · 2026-09-04
- Lovable's first engineer Emil Ahlbäck leaves to build GetEnergy_ with two OpenAI defectors — gabriel1 · 2026-09-04
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