Why every exec should be vibecoding

With examples of 2 projects I built myself

Career progression has traditionally looked like this: become a kick-ass individual contributor (IC), get promoted to manager, then to leadership, and slowly abandon the actual work for coordinating other people’s work: Planning. Supervision. People management. And of course, calendars full of meetings for said ‘tasks’ (10 hour meeting days, anybody?).

But what happens when ICs become far more autonomous, leaner teams mean coordination and supervision matter less, and every company is shipping faster than ever? When the cost of a wrong decision drops and people on the team just… go. Because that is the vision behind AI-native employees and something that AI-native companies are striving and organizing for.

The role of leaders changes. We still need decision makers. We still need context setters. But what we won’t need is pure leadership or management as a full-time job.

That role is dying. I stand behind that prediction.

The future looks more like this: senior leaders and execs who stay…