Wix Founder: Will Base44 Win the Vibe-Coding Wars? | The Truth About the Economics of Vibe-Coding

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AI handles routine health problems by recognizing familiar scenarios, while medical research requires evaluating evidence instead of generating plausible answers.
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Building a hairdresser’s business logic took professional developers a week with limited results, and a stronger team still needed two weeks.
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AI could diagnose common medical cases better than many doctors and still be a poor medical research tool.
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Base44’s user prompts, failures, and tasks create specialized training data that can make a domain-specific model outperform generic frontier models.
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If Salesforce becomes a database that AI agents scrape and re-present, its differentiated value could collapse into commodity infrastructure.
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Base44 cost $80 million to acquire and later reached roughly $160 million in revenue.
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Salesforce’s moat is institutional trust: large organizations let it hold sensitive customer data, something new AI apps cannot easily replicate.
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AI-driven scaling could take a roughly 400-person company to 800–1,000 employees in two years, mostly engineers.
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AI is powerful, but real-world performance is far below the hype. Predictions that agents will soon handle most work are overconfident.
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A company owes customers, employees, and shareholders. Millions of shareholders make their sentiment impossible to optimize.
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The company encourages agencies and partners to use Base44 now, despite worse margins than its core business.
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Substantial wealth’s greatest value is freedom from survival fear and freedom to choose whether and where to work.
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A buyback can look mistimed when markets rise immediately, then fall. The real test comes years later.
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A late-working CEO schedule creates uninterrupted hours for planning instead of surrendering the day to meetings and reactive conversations.
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AI will soon give small businesses a major boost by managing operations, selling more, and reaching new customers.
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Wix has about 3,500 employees, including roughly 400 at Base44. Customer support is its largest department across 192 countries.
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Share buybacks return value to all shareholders like dividends, and companies should use them more often.
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Choosing a demanding role creates commitment and agency. Nobody else is forcing you to stay.
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Most small-business owners will not vibe-code their entire operation because their core business is not software development.

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