Lazar Jovanovic
Vibe Coding Engineer @ Lovable
World's first professional vibe coder. Technical Evangelist at Lovable.
βLazar Jovanovic is a full-time professional vibe coder at Lovable. His job is to build both internal tools and customer-facing products purely using AI, while not having a coding background.β
Career History
| Company | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Lovable | Vibe Coding Engineer | ~2025-present |
| CitizenShipper | VP of Business Operations | ~2019-2024 |
| MARKET Protocol | Community Manager | ~2018-2019 |
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βThe first understanding that I had very early on, even though just in full transparency before we begin, I don't have a technical background. I never wrote a single line of code in my life almost. I'v...β
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job) | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder)
βSo that's the first step of solving for clarity. There are more, which is the second layer, but I assume you may have some questions on this one.β
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job) | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder)
βA million percent that I'm actually saving people. I'm actually going against what I should be saying. If I was thinking about Lovable, is I would be like, "No, no, just try to fix it in perpetuity," ...β
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job) | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder)
βAnd then it's my personal mission that resonates with me because if there wasn't Lovable, I would've never built anything, potentially in my life and I don't think that, that would've been a fun life ...β
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job) | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder)
βAnd it's also a productivity hack. When people ask me, "Wow, how do you ship so many things?" I'm like, "I never build just one project at a time. I build five or six. I have six Lovable tabs and I ju...β
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job) | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder)
βIf it had to read the entire conversation and the entire stream of requests that you made, developing anything viable or large would be impossible because it's just like consuming a lot of time and a ...β
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job) | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder)
βSo again, something that I just figured out very early on as I was building was, "Okay, if it can't remember things, my job is to provide it with reference. So let me treat Lovable or any other tool a...β
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job) | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder)
βIt's like talking to a human. I really treat Lovable like a human being. So it's like, "This is what we're building." Then I build an implementation plan, which is, "This is how we are going to build ...β
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job) | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder)
βIt's very important to me, again, going back to quality, taste, human nature. I need to define ... Because I'm still working with a system that is not emotionally intelligent yet, I need to define how...β
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job) | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder)
βHere's what's going to happen. Any tool, Lovable or Cursor or Claude, whatever tool you talk about is going to do this. It's going to be like, "Okay, let me start investigating." And then your code ba...β
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job) | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder)
βSo it focuses ... In the next request, instead of focusing on reading, it spends another 30% of tokens trying to come up with an apology. Again, I'm not educated, but if you ever read a stream of Chat...β
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job) | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder)
βWe talk about exposure time for humans. What are you exposing your agents to, as well is as important, if not even more important, before it makes code edits. Yeah.β
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job) | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder)