Mustafa Suleiman said Vibecoding is rapidly lowering the barrier to building apps, and this change could put traditional software at risk.
The CEO of Microsoft AI said on Thursday’s episode of the Exponential View podcast that AI tools have made it possible for anyone to launch code or apps instantly.
“It’s much more accessible now,” Suleiman said. “Watch the 3-minute video, spin, and launch one of these.”
“Apps and web apps can be created in seconds,” he added.
Suleiman said you don’t need deep technical skills to get started. Instead, you can learn by experimenting, watching, and doing.
AI “can build things that were thought impossible,” he says.
“Unless you push these things to their limits and explore their boundaries, you can’t really understand their magic or what they’re bad at.”
“Everyone has to get caught up in the movement,” he added.
Suleiman also said he has vibecoded a system that tracks DJs you want to meet, concerts and festivals coming to Japan, and fits those events into your travel schedule. Tasks that were previously done manually are now performed automatically in spreadsheets that are updated throughout the year.
Suleiman’s comments come as investors grow increasingly worried that AI tools and agents could wipe out entire software categories.
That concern was further heightened this week when Anthropic announced it was adding law-focused features to its Cowork assistant. This tool allows AI to review legal documents and track compliance. This task is usually done by legal software.
The market did not take this lightly. Shares of legal software companies in Europe and the United States fell sharply on Tuesday, but the selling spread across the software sector and the tech industry.
OpenAI suffered a similar decline a few months ago after rolling out software-as-a-service tools powered by in-house AI.
Vibe coding could replace software and apps
Many of the tools currently making the tech industry nervous are built using AI coding tools.
AI personal assistant OpenClaw was created with the help of AI, while Moltbook (a viral Reddit-style forum for AI agents) was completely vibe-coded.
Anthropic also announced last month that it had built a Cowork assistant using Claude.
“@claudeai wrote Cowork,” Felix Leesburg, product manager at Anthropic, wrote about X. During the livestream, Leesburg said Claude helped the team put together Cowork in just one week.
Technology leaders and developers say this shift is becoming the norm.
OpenClaw developer Peter Steinberger said in an episode of the Behind the Craft podcast last week that AI allows developers to “build everything.”
OpenAI chairman Brett Taylor said on last week’s episode of the Big Tech Podcast that building software quickly through vibe coding will soon feel less novel and more routine.
But the real question, Taylor said, is which software still matters.
He expects AI agents to become the primary software interface, replacing dashboards, browser forms, and traditional apps.
“The question is who is creating these agents,” he says. “Do those agents buy off-the-shelf stuff or do they build it themselves?”
