Lenny’s Podcast123 min
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job)
Lazar Jovanovic · Feb 8, 2026
Key learnings
- Start a project with several parallel attempts (brain dump, typed prompt, design reference, code template) to find the strongest…
- Spend most of your time planning and chatting with the AI rather than executing, since clarity matters more than raw build speed.
- Write a set of source-of-truth docs (master plan, implementation plan, design guidelines, user journeys, tasks.md) so the agent…