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‘Wildly productive weekend’: Former Amazon exec’s vibe coding post sparks debate over viral AI tools

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Former Amazon and Flexport CEO Dave Clark built an end-to-end customer prototype, reworked a deck, and created a custom CRM in just 72 hours using AI-powered 'vibe coding' tools like Claude Code and Cursor. Clark abandoned traditional off-the-shelf CRM software because it couldn't provide the data visibility and communication pipeline his logistics startup Auger needed to scale effectively.

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