Vibecoding as a business consultant
After three decades in consulting, I’ve learned that nothing aligns a room faster than vibecoding a rough MVP in front of clients. It’s the difference between describing a destination and letting people feel the air there: a shared, tactile sense of the future state. In Europe’s boardrooms—cross-border, multilingual, laden with regulation—showing a working sketch often breaks through the abstraction of decks and diagrams. It isn’t theatre; it’s a pragmatic shortcut to shared conviction . The new assistants make this possible without a small army. Microsoft Copilot helps turn workshop notes into candidate flows and test data, then keeps everyone honest by summarising trade‑offs in plain language. GitHub Copilot sits in the IDE like a tireless pair, nudging out scaffolding for APIs, data transforms, and those “could we just” features that show the art of the possible. And Replit gives you a frictionless sandbox in the browser, so a procurement lead in Milan and an operations manager in...
