Are vibe coding startups like Lovable and Bolt just overpriced middlemen?
verrsane · x · 2026-11-02
A debate starter on X: vibe coding startups like Lovable, Bolt, and Replit are fascinating and ironic—why do people love paying more to middlemen when they could just use Claude Code or the ChatGPT app directly? The quote-framing ('your answer to this tells me a lot about you') turns it into a positioned argument about moats and user segmentation in AI coding tools.
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