Vibe Coding: Enterprise vs Startup

Vibe coding looks very different depending on where you sit. In a startup, "let me just ask the AI to build this" can mean shipping a prototype by lunch. In an enterprise, the same sentence triggers compliance reviews, security questions, and a procurement meeting. Same idea, very different blast radius.

On April 30, Don Demcsak and I are putting both on stage at the Lancaster AI Symposium, hosted at Millersville University. Don is a Global Technology Strategist at Dell Technologies and a board member at the Technology Council of Central PA — he works with CIOs and CTOs trying to figure out how AI actually fits inside large enterprises. I work on Okaya, a startup helping people in high-impact careers — like first responders — stay mentally ready. Different worlds. Same questions.

Don will be at the keyboard. I'll be talking with the audience and going back and forth with Don as he prompts. For the live build, we picked regulations — something everyone in the room understands, and complicated enough that AI gets confidently wrong in interesting ways.

From there we'll build something live, with help from the audience. Where to push. What to ask next. What to throw out. I don't know what we'll end up with — and that's the part I'm most looking forward to.

The Lancaster AI Symposium is one of the better events the area puts on for technologists, business leaders, students, and educators trying to make sense of where AI is headed. If you're holding both the excitement and the uncertainty about all of this, it's a good room for it.

Come watch us figure it out live. If you're going to be there, find me — always happy to compare notes.

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