Entering a startup as the first AI builder after years in the corporate world is a whirlwind. No data? No problem, Claude to the rescue.
It felt like a superpower, until I had to sit down with our lead developer and try to explain the sprawling, hyper-complex prompt-and-code hybrid I had just built.
In this talk, I’ll take you inside the chaos of the "vibe coding" loop and the culture shock of trading enterprise guardrails for pure startup speed. You'll walk away with a practical look at the prototyping traps that build instant architectural debt, and real-world strategies for keeping your AI code lean, explainable, and production-ready when building from zero.