Andrew Laudato
Chief Operating Officer
The Vitamin Shoppe
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Vibe coding just collapsed the economics of building software - a $10M, 3-year custom build is now a 2-3 month job, and Laudato says the only real threat is to people not using AI to build.
He calls out the AI hype directly: LLMs aren't thinking, they're predicting the next word with more context than ever - a 'parlor trick,' not intelligence.
The 5-years-out vision gets specific: his shopping agent will already know his calendar (he's in Texas next week), his preferred payment card, and route the order to whichever retailer has the API to fulfill it - retailers without that API just get skipped.
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I don't hire for specific skills. I hire people that have curiosity and intelligence and ambition. These are the things I can't teach...
Andrew Laudato, Chief Operating Officer at The Vitamin Shoppe
Andrew Laudato
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