A keynote in three acts · The sources
One year after Andrej Karpathy named it, the evidence is in. The numbers are extraordinary on both sides. This is the companion page: the keynote in brief, the apps worth a look, and every source, so you can check the work.
The barrier to producing software dropped to zero. A Stockholm startup at $6.6B; someone with no engineering background shipping ten apps used a million times; a journalist building a working product in 48 hours. For personal tools and prototypes, anyone with taste and an idea can now ship.
While the floor dropped, the ceiling went up. The same tools let a senior ship in a week what took a quarter. DHH changed his mind on the record. Google: 75% of new code AI generated, “approved by engineers.” Snap kept the seniors; the stock went up.
Same tool, different outcomes. Every failure (Moltbook, Replit, Moonwell) was missing something a professional brings before the agent gets a key: a threat model, a spec, a review. It’s never the AI. The difference is what you brought to the conversation.
It’s a great time to be alive and creative. Bring your taste, your spec, your threat model, your years in the trenches, and you can build anything. Skip them, and you become one of the exhibits.
The platforms · where it happens
01 LovableThe apps in the wild · the exhibits
07 SaaStr.aiThese were all vibe coded, and they are all live right now. Some are polished products from professional teams; others were built by people who are not engineers at all. The range of ambition and complexity is enormous, and that is exactly the point: the same tools, in very different hands.
If you want to work this way and not just read about it, these open source repositories are good places to start with agentic programming.