Vibe Engineering, Part I

I wasn’t always a software building geek.

My first world was numbers, deals, and high-stakes finance. It was there, co-founding a hedge fund that used machines to read financial statements, that I got the bug. I saw firsthand how technology could create leverage, how a well-written algorithm could process information and find insights faster and more reliably than any team of analysts. That was it for me. Since 2011, I’ve been investing in and building technology, and I’ve never looked back.

This path, from finance to tech, has given me a unique perspective. I didn’t learn to code from a textbook; I learned by doing. I dove into machine learning, obsessed over Kaggle competitions, and spent countless hours at hackathons building systems to solve real-world problems. I know what it’s like to code from a place of pure intuition, passion, and a relentless drive to just make it work.

It’s a style of building that many of you might recognize: “vibe coding”.

Let’s be clear: vibe coding is not…