Lovable's first engineer leaves to found Energy, betting AI can already do most computer work
TAbrodi · x · 2026-09-04
Emil Ahlbäck, the first engineer at Lovable, announced he has left to build Energy (@getenergy) with friends gabriel1 and dafant.
His thesis: AI is already good enough to do most of the work on your computer, yet almost nobody works that way — and his new startup aims to fix exactly that. The departure from Lovable's founding engineering team is a notable talent move in the vibe-coding space.
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