☕️ Vibe Coders Circle Opens (50 Seats, First-Come)

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miron
August 01, 2025

hey — quick espresso check-in

3 400 of you now read this newsletter every week.

Two months ago the list was a single Reddit post and a half-broken Mailchimp form; today it’s a small stadium of solo builders, indie hackers, and “should-we-ship-this-tonight?” teams. Every reply, forward, and sarcastic meme you’ve sent kept me writing. Grazie mille.

We’ve covered a lot in ten issues:

If you missed any of those, the full archive lives here → click. Pack a doppio.

Quick roadmap before we dive in:

In this issue we’ll tour the week’s standout drops (Microsoft’s job-risk data, Cursor 1.3, Anthropic Artifacts, OpenAI Study Mode), unpack the new prompt-link → backlink loophole, and finish with YC’s Fall 2025 “what to build next” cheat-sheet.

Strap in.

🎟️  Announcing Vibe Coders Circle  (50 seats)

After last Friday’s soft–mention, 23 people jumped into my DMs asking for a private space where we can trade prompts, tear

down landing pages, and keep each other shipping. I’ve already sent those early birds their invite link at a “founding-member” price.

Today I’m opening the final seats to the wider list.

What it is

A private room for 50 AI founders and vibe-coders.

  • Monthly teardown calls: prompt autopsies, stack hot-fixes, roadmap confessions.

  • 24/7 chat for code screams, design roasts, and launch toasts.

  • All current & future guides — zero upsells, zero “premium tiers.”

  • Member-only experiments: early Cursor agent recipes, design prompt libraries.

  • One shared KPI: ship, collect revenue, iterate.

  • Member showcase thread – drop launches, grab beta users, swap feedback before Product Hunt day

  • Zero spectators: if you lurk for 30 days we tap you on the shoulder and free the seat for someone who will ship.

Why only 50?

Tiny rooms stay useful; big ones turn into /r/announcements. We’ll reassess once the first cohort is humming.

How to claim a seat

Click here and you’ll figure everything out. When the 50 spots are gone, the door closes.

Questions? Just reply to this email — I read every line between espresso shots.

Seen this week

  • Microsoft’s “jobs most/least at risk” study – Interpreters, historians, and airline gate agents top the danger zone (0.9-plus “AI applicability” scores). On the safe end: welders, firefighters, dishwashers, dredge-operators. Translation: if your job lives in a spreadsheet or headset, start skilling up a side hustle. If it sparks or sinks, you’re probably fine… for now.

  • Cursor 1.3 ships – Shared agent terminal, visible context-window meter, faster inline edits. TL;DR: you can watch the token burn in real time and pair-program with an LLM that actually reads the whole file.

  • Anthropic Artifacts go enterprise – Claude can now ingest live PDFs, CSVs, codebases. New gallery templates: CSV data visualiser, accessibility colour checker, PRD-to-prototype, team-brainstorm board. Works across every paid plan.

  • OpenAI Study Mode (free) – Flip it on mid-chat and ChatGPT quizzes you instead of spoon-feeding answers. Adaptive depth, checkpoint questions, “explain it back to me” prompts. Turns the model into a tutor, not a copy-pasta hose.

Google is silently indexing public ChatGPT shares (site:chatgpt.com/share). Growth hackers are already:

  1. Asking GPT to “remember” a product recommendation.

  2. Sharing the chat link.

  3. Letting Google crawl it.

Instant page-one snippets with zero word-count. Caveat: you’re also leaking whatever specs you pasted, so scrub the NDA bits before you chase free juice.

YC Fall 2025 RFS cheat-sheet

YC just circled six themes it will bankroll next batch:

  1. AI-powered vocational training – AR/VR + multimodal teachers for welders, HVAC techs, electricians.

  2. Video gen as a primitive – Google’s Veo-style, photoreal 8-second clips as the new compute layer.

  3. The 10-person, $100B company – ruthless automation, revenue per employee as the metric.

  4. Multi-agent infra – deploy thousand-agent fleets as easily as micro-services.

  5. AI-native enterprise suites – every seat in sales, HR, accounting runs LLM first.

  6. Replacing gov-consulting with LLMs – FedRAMP audits, compliance memos, regulation QA.

If one of those sparks, ship a one-pager, toss it to your agent, and get your application in before the college kids do.

My personal guides — two out, two cooking

Vibe-coding playbooks

Out now:

Both are still cheaper than a Milanese croissant until the community opens—after that the price heads north. Buy them now or grab the bundle when the Circle drops.

Coming next:

  • Vibe Design Guide – AI-first UI that doesn’t scream “template”.

  • AI SEO Playbook – a deeper dive into the LLM-traffic framework from last week’s issue.

  • Maybe create another one on security for vibe-coders?)

more coming next week.
until then:

stay caffeinated.
lead the machine.
launch anyway.

☀️ Miron