AI at work
Vibe coding
Building software by describing what you want to an AI in plain English and letting it write the code, then testing and adjusting by conversation rather than by hand.
Why it matters for your business
It has made small, custom tools affordable for businesses that could never justify a developer. The catch: a tool that works in a demo is not the same as one that is secure, backed up and maintainable. Who reviews the code, and who owns it, still matters.
In practice
A landscaper describes a crew scheduling tool: jobs on a calendar, drag to reassign, text the crew in the morning. A working first version exists the same week, built with Claude Code, then gets hardened before the crews rely on it.
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