Lovable’s $400M funding show vibe coding means business
THE SO WHAT
“Vibe coding” just graduated from toy to funded platform—$400M behind Lovable means investors are betting that natural-language app building with real scaffolding can eat a chunk of traditional dev workflows. If you own an internal tools backlog, you now have to assume non-expert builders will expect this kind of interface and plan governance, not just tickets to the dev team.
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