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No learning curve
Airtable and Retool required no coding, and both still took time to learn. Claude removes that step. Ask it for a new dashboard or a verbal spreadsheet and it builds one, with no learning curve.
Airtable's problem
Airtable was pitched as a new Excel, a spreadsheet for words. Everyone knows how to use a spreadsheet, while most people still don't know what Airtable is. It had dedicated fans, but it was hard to explain when to use it, and it sat in a grab bag of no-code tools. Claude Cowork, Perplexity, and other computer agents now do what Airtable did.
Building in-house
Building in-house shows how far this goes. One investment team vibe coded a portfolio-tracking system in a month, where buying the equivalent off the shelf would have cost about $250,000 in software and roughly $1 million in integration over two or three years. It now has full insight into the whole portfolio, the competitive set, and the founders.
Why did spreadsheets become the first no-code tool?
VisiCalc, released in 1979 for the Apple II, let accountants build financial models without a programmer. Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston created it, and it was widely credited with making the personal computer useful for business. Lotus 1-2-3 followed in 1983, and Microsoft Excel arrived for the Macintosh in 1985. Formulas in cells gave millions of people a way to program without calling it programming.
How does vibe coding turn plain requests into software?
Andrej Karpathy coined the term vibe coding in early 2025 to describe asking a model for code in plain language and accepting what it produces. The model has been trained on enormous collections of code and text, so it can generate working programs from a description. The user runs the result, reports what is wrong, and the model revises it. Karpathy previously led AI at Tesla and was a founding member of OpenAI.
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