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Applied AI·April 5, 2026·1 min read

I vibe coded an AI tool to help my mom fight stage 4 cancer. It helped us catch errors in her treatment and let her die with dignity.

A single caregiver 'vibe coding' a symptom tracker that catches treatment errors is a brutal indictment of current clinical QA and a preview of bottom-up health tooling. Health systems that don’t integrate patient- and caregiver-built AI workflows will be competing against a shadow stack built in grief and frustration.

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Medvi, glorified by the NYT as a two-employee startup with $1B+ in revenue, is a warning about how AI can be misused for shady business and marketing practices (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)

AI-native businesses are now a cover story for old-school gray-zone marketing and arbitrage — the Medvi narrative shows how easy it is to launder sketchy unit economics as ‘AI magic.’ If your GTM or vendor relies on opaque AI claims instead of verifiable funnels, margins, and controls, assume the risk is reputational as much as financial.