The Good Stuff 38 - The Rise of Vibe Product Manager
# The Good Stuff, with Pete and Andy - Episode 38: The Rise of Vibe Product Manager
**Hosts:** Pete and Andy (New Year's Eve edition at the beach)
Pete reveals he's stopped coding entirely after 12 months of learning—now he just product manages a team of agents. They explore the shift from "vibe coding" to "vibe product management," why Pete built Slack in a day, and the addictive power of tight feedback loops.
Plus: steel-manning the security concerns, why raw dogging agents beats sub-agents, and New Year reflections on why model breakthroughs don't matter anymore.
## Key Moments:
* [02:07] "I learned to code for 12 months. And then I just stopped. It's nuts."
* [02:54] Pete built Slack/Discord in a day: "I shouldn't be able to replace a $20 billion SaaS company in 12 hours"
* [08:10] The addiction: "From nothing to MVP in a day, radically transform it every morning"
* [09:05] Not vibe coding—it's a glorious tool for entrepreneurship and building businesses
* [12:10] Introducing Agora: Slack replacement with integrated Kanban, all Nostr-based and encrypted
* [13:25] Slack's fatal flaw: "Bullshit asynchronous tool because you just lose everything"
* [18:05] Steel-manning the critics: addressing "you'll get hacked" security concerns
* [21:21] Everything encrypted with Nostr keys: "They literally can't steal anything"
* [23:21] Your attack surface: "You're the oil you get out of a peanut—not worth it to hackers"
* [28:03] Raw dogging the base agent—not bothering with sub-agents or elaborate skills
* [31:44] Pete's tried sub-agents many times: "I have always been left wanting"
* [32:33] The breakthrough pattern: specify in 10 minutes, deliver in 5-10 minutes
* [34:15] The 21-minute rule: must complete the loop in 21 minutes or it doesn't work
* [42:04] Mainstream adoption reality: experienced professionals never heard of coding agents
* [47:29] Small business owners are the right audience—different relationship to risk
* [50:09] Small businesses always full of risk: "Your hair is always on fire anyway"
* [51:56] The cottage software developer—1000 true fans model, not billion-user SaaS
* [56:44] Andy's New Year take: bullish on tools, no model breakthrough needed since 3.5
* [57:33] Touch Don't Look success: normal people cross the hurdle in 10 minutes, creativity shines through
**Quote:** "I learned to code for basically like 12 months. And then I just stopped. It's nuts. And I thought, this really is like the way to use these things."