AI makes building software cheap, so customer trust now decides startup winners
Vibe coding collapses build times, and founders who skip hard customer questions fall hardest, veteran builder tells Sydney audience
Virginia Murdoch, who co-founded ebook startup Booki.sh before AI coding tools existed, told founders at Google Ascend in Sydney last week that the AI era has made building software almost free and that customer trust, not technical speed, now decides which startups win.