Buy-now-pay-later platform Klarna went public on the US stock market last week, sending its stock surging to well above its expected range.
The company's CEO, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, has thrown the entire company's weight behind artificial intelligence, infamously boasting that the tech was doing the work of "700 full-time agents" last year — only to regret his decision months later, admitting that humans play an important role after all.
But Siemiatkowski's obsession with AI hasn't disappeared. The CEO told the podcast Sourcery over the weekend that he's been vibe coding, the practice of using AI to write code using natural language, to express new ideas to his firm's engineers.
Siemiatkowski claimed that he went from being a "business person" to an amateur developer thanks to vibe co