I think after 100+ days and with 9 apps vibe coded into production with @replit used over 500,000 times we’re just getting going. And … I think key to that is that I’m now “Replit Fluent”.
What does that mean? It’s a state where I know how to vibe well enough (without a developer), and I know the app and its capability and limits well enough, that I can basically see any app I want to build in my head, and now know how to completely prompt it and shepherd it to production … before I start.
I can now will almost any ‘normal’ app into existence that I want to build. Without a developer.
I remember in the early days of Cursor my son actually paid out of his own pocket for the first time since ChatGPT (he’s awfully smart). He said back then Cursor could now do 90% of his coding for him, but “for most people, it might be 10% or less.” I didn’t get what he meant at the time, but today I do. It’s more than being “good at prompting”. It’s understanding the system well enough to already understand its outputs, its limitations, and exactly how it works in practice — before you start. It’s being truly fluent in the agent.
This isn’t to say I don’t still have bumps and that some things end up harder or longer than anticipated. But pretty much now I can will most things into production on Replit very predictably with the agent — because I can already plan them out fully in my mind before I first “prompt” the agent.
What that means in practice is 3 things:
First, I 100% know if a project will work now before I start in Replit. If I can see it to completion in my mind, now I can finish it to a reasonably high standard. That is a huge boon. When I started ‘prosumer’ vibe coding all of 100+ days ago :), I couldn’t finish my first project. In part, it was because I picked a very complex product to start. But there are many stories of others in similar boats. They can’t finish their vibe coded app. But now — I have a 100% chance of finishing a project, and in roughly the amount of time I budget for it in mind before starting.
Second, now I’m merely just time constrained in what I can build. I already have a couple of jobs. I have $100m+ to invest in fresh capital at SaaStr Fund, and running SaaStr itself is an eight figure business. Both take a lot of time. But I set aside about 1.5-2 hours a day to vibe code. That’s my budget. That’s what I can build now.
Third, maintenance and new features and upgrades to existing apps I’ve vibe’d consume more and more of my time budget. This of course is true of any software. It just catches up to you with prosumer vibe coding. So now that I can basically truly build anything I want, the question becomes — do I have enough time to make it great? Or should that time go into making my existing 9 apps even better? I now can make a pretty good v1 of anything I want to. But getting to great takes time. It always has.
I think it’s a big deal to be able to get to this state without a developer and without being a developer. Yes, I co-founded a B2B startup that went from $0 to $200m+ ARR so I had that going for me (which is a lot). But the fact I am now “Replit Fluent” and that now my only limit on building is my own time … is super interesting.
The world is so, so much different than 12 months ago.
There is a learning curve in AI. In almost every great tool and every great agent, at least for now. Don’t let anyone tell you there isn’t. Ignore any marketing that tells you there isn’t. If you want to get most AI Agents into production, e.g. a great AI SDR or great AI Support, and have it work well — you have to learn and often train the AI. IMHO you also have to learn tools like Replit to truly get out of them what they promise. You will be much, much better 100 hours in.
But if you get to a State of Fluency in a prosumer vibe coding app … it’s like a superpower you never had before.
