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Lovable's $6.6B Series B Cements Vibe Coding as a Real Category
Editorial Team·3 min read·Apr 22, 2026Join the Signal
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72% of Developers Don't Vibe-Code at Work — and That's the Story
Stack Overflow's 2025 survey of 49,000+ developers shows AI adoption at an all-time high — but vibe coding sitting almost entirely outside professional engineering teams.
Editorial Team·3 min read·Apr 18, 2026
Five Weeks Vibe-Coding a Bloomberg Clone: What Designers Should Steal From Rest of World's Experiment
A non-technical journalist spent five weeks building an African macroeconomic terminal with Lovable. Pair his lessons with Simon Willison's clean definition of vibe coding for a working playbook.
Editorial Team·3 min read·Apr 12, 2026
The Stockholm Thesis: Anton Osika on Why Vibe Coding's Biggest Company Stayed in Europe
Anton Osika ran a Stockholm hacker house and built one of the fastest-growing software startups in history. We pulled the public record on his thesis — and what it signals for designers becoming founders.
Editorial Team·3 min read·Apr 8, 2026
v0 Redefines What AI Design Tools Can Do
Vercel's v0 has pushed the boundaries of what's possible with AI-generated interfaces. Here's what changed.
Editorial Team·2 min read·Mar 20, 2026
The Rise of Vibe Coding: Why Designers Are Learning to Prompt
A new wave of designers is ditching Figma exports for AI-generated code. We explore the vibe coding movement.
Editorial Team·2 min read·Mar 18, 2026
System Prompts That Actually Ship: A Practical Guide
Most system prompts produce demo-quality output. Here's how to write prompts that produce production-ready designs.
Editorial Team·2 min read·Mar 15, 2026
Community Rankings: Which AI Design Tool Is Actually the Best?
We analyzed thousands of community votes to find out which AI design tools are winning hearts — and which are falling behind.
Editorial Team·2 min read·Mar 10, 2026