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The essays, videos, podcasts, books and tools behind every answer across eChai's hubs, from starting up to go-to-market, D2C, founder money and AI, each with a note on why it is here.

What founders use most, ranked by how many answers lean on it.

  1. A working engineer's readable take on what the study does and does not prove. seangoedecke.com Article · How Founders Use AI METR's AI productivity study is really good Sean Goedecke
  2. How professionals actually draw the line between vibes and production. newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com Article · How Founders Use AI Vibe coding as a software engineer Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
  3. The industry's most trusted engineering newsletter maps the real limits. newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com Article · How Founders Use AI How AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths The Pragmatic Engineer + Addy Osmani
  4. The SaaStr incident: what happens when an agent touches production. fortune.com Article · How Founders Use AI AI coding tool wiped out a software company's database in 'catastrophic failure' Fortune
  5. The technical blow-by-blow of the most instructive AI agent failure yet. theregister.com Article · How Founders Use AI Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database The Register
  6. Rescue engineering is now a job title; know why before you need one. developers.slashdot.org Article · How Founders Use AI The software engineers paid to fix vibe coded messes Slashdot
  7. Case studies of the $50K-500K cleanup invoices. techstartups.com Article · How Founders Use AI The vibe coding delusion: startups paying the price for AI-generated technical debt Tech Startups
  8. Unusually candid limits list from a vibe-coding platform itself. emergent.sh Guide · How Founders Use AI What are the limitations of vibe coding? Emergent
  9. The strongest steel-man of the skeptic case, worth absorbing. nmn.gl Article · How Founders Use AI Vibe coding is a dangerous fantasy Namanyay Goel
  10. Deflates the hype accounts so you can set honest expectations. theseniordev.com Article · How Founders Use AI 'Vibe-coding' influencers are ruining your life (the solo developer lie) theSeniorDev
  11. Hundreds of working engineers debate where the boundary really sits. news.ycombinator.com Article · How Founders Use AI Vibe code is legacy code (Hacker News discussion) Hacker News
  12. A balanced essay on capability versus responsibility. willem.com Article · How Founders Use AI Vibe Coding: on the power and danger of programming with AI Willem
  13. A code-review company catalogues the failure patterns it sees daily. coderabbit.ai Article · How Founders Use AI Vibe coding: because who doesn't love surprise technical debt!? CodeRabbit
  14. What a rescue service looks like when you do hit the wall. vibecoderescue.com Tool · How Founders Use AI Vibe Code Rescue Vibe Code Rescue
  15. The definitive definition piece everyone else quotes. simonwillison.net Article · How Founders Use AI Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks) Simon Willison
  16. How the line has blurred a year on, from the person who drew it. simonw.substack.com Article · How Founders Use AI Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like Simon Willison
  17. The lexicographers' own definition and why usage exploded. blog.collinsdictionary.com Article · How Founders Use AI Collins Word of the Year 2025: AI meets authenticity Collins Dictionary
  18. The book's core ideas in one conversation. newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI Beyond Vibe Coding with Addy Osmani (podcast) The Pragmatic Engineer
  19. How the startup establishment absorbed the term within a month. x.com Thread · How Founders Use AI YC on Karpathy's coinage and what it means Y Combinator
  20. The practitioner argument over what the word should mean. news.ycombinator.com Article · How Founders Use AI Hacker News debates Ng's 'bad name for a real job' Hacker News
  21. The academic treatment if you want the rigorous version. arxiv.org Article · How Founders Use AI Vibe Coding: toward an AI-native paradigm for intent-driven programming arXiv (academic survey)
  22. Decode tokens, context windows, and RLS before your first session. siteground.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Vibe coding glossary: key terms every beginner should know SiteGround Academy
  23. A builder-platform's plain-English dictionary of the jargon. blink.new Guide · How Founders Use AI Vibe coding glossary: every term you need to know Blink
  24. The terms you will meet in your first month, explained simply. blog.vibecoder.me Guide · How Founders Use AI Vibe coding vocabulary: every term you need Vibe Coder Blog

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Starting Up Find an idea, validate it, build, and land your first customers. 1046 questions GTM Go-to-market, from breaking in to how the best teams do it. 352 questions D2C Building a direct-to-consumer brand, India-first. 482 questions Wealth Paying yourself, ESOPs, secondaries, and de-risking founder wealth. 154 questions How Founders Use AI How founders actually put AI to work, mapped topic by topic. 278 questions Glossary Plain-language definitions of the startup and VC terms you'll hit. 390 terms
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