Klarna CEO Makes Employees Review His AI-Generated Vibe Coding Projects

by FiddlerClampon 9/23/2025, 1:18 AMwith 9 comments

by jethronethroon 9/23/2025, 3:36 AM

Wonder what they say about the code. Or do they bite their tongues and make it work?

by donsupremeon 9/23/2025, 1:45 AM

> “Rather than disturbing my poor engineers and product people with what is half good ideas and half bad ideas, now I test it myself. I come say, ‘Look, I’ve actually made this work, this is how it works, what do you think, could we do it this way?’” he said.

by turtleyachton 9/23/2025, 6:26 AM

Review implies the requested changes are made by the requestor, not the reviewer. Maybe article meant refactor, rewrite, or otherwise revise.

by nar001on 9/23/2025, 8:36 AM

His company is gonna fold in the future anyway, so I don't think it matters much

by dv_dton 9/23/2025, 1:21 AM

over the wall engineering is poor practice, AI powered or not

by darthruperton 9/23/2025, 12:49 PM

An AI board would certainly fire a CEO of a $20 billion company who wastes their time doing little tweaking like that. I mean even if there'd be a perfect AI that does something beyond slop consistently, this would still be a waste of time for a CEO.

At least if this is true at all, which should be perhaps doubted a little bit.