Lazar Jovanovic

The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job) | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder)

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Opening
Lazar Jovanovic (00:00:00): I'm the first official vibe coding engineer at Lovable. Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:03): You're at the top 0.1% elite level of vibe coding. It's a dream job for so many people. Lazar Jovanovic (00:00:08): It became a job by building in public. You don't need a company to hire you. You can hire yourself as a professional vibe coder first. Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:15): You've never coded, you don't want to look at the code. Lazar Jovanovic (00:00:17): Coding is going to be like calligraphy....

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Low-ego framing
vibe coder at Lovable. His job is to build both internal tools and customer-facing products purely using AI, while not having a coding background." tags: ["design", "engineering", "ai",...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Lenny Rachitsky (00:04:57): Lazar, thank you so much for being here and welcome to the podcast. Lazar Jovanovic (00:05:00): Thanks for having me, man....

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Return warmth
Lazar Jovanovic (01:42:02): I appreciate the opportunity. Lenny Rachitsky (01:42:03): Bye, everyone. Narrator (01:42:06): Thank you so much for...

Matches the guest's warmth and keeps the social temperature generous.

Ask with curiosity
again, as two co-founders, we talk and say, "Okay, well, if we agree on this, how should this look like? How should this feel? Let's describe it high-level," but now because I use AI, I can go a little bit...

Turns a moment that could become critique into a question about the guest's thinking.

Low-ego framing
I started using Lovable or any AI tools, first thing that I knew was like, "I don't know how to code." So my first thing was like, "Oh, I can build. Wow, amazing." But a week later it was like, "Oh, I can...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.