Many software companies sent me wrapped reports for 2025. And while I ignore most of them, two stood out when I received them for the first time: Replit and Cursor.
And that’s a reminder of which new skills I picked up in 2025.
Coding via prompt, prototyping, or vibecoding – or whatever you wanna call it, was the craft I applied to many ideas at night time.
It’s not so important what these two wrapped reports say about my actual usage of the product. What mattered was that I even got these reports—a reminder that I had embarked on completely new missions, enabled by AI vibecoding/prototyping tools – stuff I wasn’t able to do the year before.
These tools are now a fixture in my skill set and allow me to explore new ideas more easily.
While many explorations will not see the (public) light, lots of these explorations lead to findings, to learnings, I can apply in other projects.
And the stuff I can explore gets more serious. While the first examples were mainly internal tools to speed up processes, one of these internal explorations led to a publicly launched tool.
I am talking about LinCal, the calendar app for Linear – it’s now used daily by others worldwide.
Vibecoding as a term often gets a bad rap, but don’t get fooled. While there are a lot of heated discussions about whether vibecoding or coding via prompt is actually any good, or if you can use it seriously, the underlying trend of enabling anyone with a keyboard and an idea (and a credit card for tokens :)) to start building—that’s huge.
The opportunities are vast and I am excited thinking about where all this can lead us in 2025.
