• Areeb Mirza
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Stop "vibe coding" and get back to work

I need to be honest about something because I was guilty of this too. I was sitting at my desk with Claude Code open on one screen and Slack on the other, building little internal tools and automations, and convincing myself I was being incredibly productive. It felt like high-leverage work. It felt like I was building the future of my company. But the truth is, I was just avoiding the hard stuff.

At the mastermind, one of the speakers called this out directly. He said that AI tools give founders the illusion of working. You feel busy. You feel like you are doing something important. But if that tool you are building isn't directly solving the main bottleneck in your business right now, you are just procrastinating with extra steps.

If the bottleneck in your business is sales, you should be reviewing calls and coaching your team. If the bottleneck is marketing, you should be creating content or optimizing your funnel. If the bottleneck is fulfillment, you should be improving your delivery process. But instead, founders are spending four hours a day playing with AI because it is fun and it feels productive.

Here is the other thing. An "AI expert" is not a developer. An AI expert is someone who spends a lot of time on Instagram Reels and knows what Claude Code is. A developer is someone who actually understands the back end of the software you are trying to build. If you genuinely need custom internal tools, hire a real developer. One company at the mastermind hired a full-time developer who was building four tools a day and saved them $36,000 a year in Zapier costs alone. That developer paid for himself in months. Meanwhile, the founder got his time back to focus on the things that actually grow the business.

Stop pretending to work. Get back to the operations that drive revenue.

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