According to the top echelons of YC, vibe coders are "1000x engineers". Add in 15-hour days and you can probably expect that team of six to surpass AWS in features by next month.
The founder appears to be Brazilian, and when I worked for a Brazilian company (very briefly) this was the vibe. it was very weird as this particular company often didn't seem to care about results, only the grind.
From the job posting it sounds like the company value prop is AI agents as debt collector? They want to “solve deep problems like collecting more money”. What a shitty dystopia we’re creating.
Tech just became yuppie 2.0, just like in the 80s and early 90s every sociopath looking for a large paycheck jumped into finance, in the 2010s onward it's been tech.
Thought that listing was parody when I first saw it a week or so again. Since then the pay range has increased substantially -- originally it was, I believe, $80 - $120K for your "12 to 15 hour days", and onboarding that literally includes full time making collection calls, which...rofl.
EDIT - Both times I've joked about this ad, suddenly my account is rate limited and I can't post anything new without a "you're posting too fast" error. Maybe coincidence, but absolutely humorous.
Ignoring all of the absolutely insane things about that job description.
Do they have a list of clients I can access, so I can avoid using any of their products? The first time I get a phone call from an AI bot starting with "I see you opened our email about...", I'm throwing my phone out the window.
> Do they have a list of clients I can access, so I can avoid using any of their products?
If I'm not mistaken they offer service to debt collection companies, if you know any way to avoid a given debt collection service please do let me know!
since this is an AI company it's not entirely impossible that they're putting out these ads to portray a certain image, rather than to actually hire people...
I mean...what image? The original listing had a terrible pay rate, they proudly boast that you'll be working 12-16 hour days and will start your employment making collection calls, which...I'd rather plunge toilets with my lips.
If that ad is trying to push an image, man they couldn't be failing worse. It looks pathetic.
YC frequently brags they don’t back ideas; they back founders. If that’s the case, it’s becoming quite clear to they back shitty people who openly exploit other human beings in search of profit.
None of that is true. Doctors generally treat whoever comes to them, and sometimes may refuse to treat desperately sick people (see women who died in the US because doctors refuse to treat them after a miscarriage). Teachers teach whoever is in their class. You don’t need to have committed a crime to require a lawyer, even something as simple as writing a contract applies.
But even if what you claimed had made any sense, it would still have been completely irrelevant and added nothing to the conversation.
the image is that of "doing serious stuff by letting the AI do all the work". which is the promise of vibe coding, as well as the more general promise of this company.
> Solve deep product problems like how to collect more money with a voice AI agent.
> Ready to grind long hours, including weekends, to hit our ambitious goals.