Vibe UpShape Up for the Vibe Coding Era

Even as implementation cost converges on zero, the bottleneck doesn't vanish — it moves. Why shaping and appetite survive by changing nothing but the unit of the budget, and how six weeks becomes four days plus one.

Start with the introduction

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Part 1 · What Changed

The implementation cost that vibe coding brought down, and the three bottlenecks that appeared in its place — verification and review, attention and focus, complexity debt.

Part 2 · What Doesn't Change

Appetite is rewritten from a time budget into a budget across three resources, while shaping and the pitch become, unchanged, the briefing document for AI agents.

Part 3 · The New Cycle

VDLC's four-day build plus one-day cool-down, parallel betting and the context breaker, and a new definition of finished — "Done = Deployed + Regenerable".