# Me, Myself & I.T. Leadership — Vibe Coding vs. Standardization

## Episode summary

Daniel and Nova discuss how Vibe Coding changes the economics of software delivery: custom solutions become dramatically cheaper to build, but not necessarily cheaper to operate. The episode argues for **Smart Standardization** instead of reflexive radical standardization.

## Key ideas

- Vibe Coding can reduce the one-time build cost of software from weeks to days.

- Cheap customization can become dangerous when lifetime maintenance costs are ignored.

- Radical standardization made sense when custom software was expensive, but that assumption is shifting.

- The new discipline is to standardize the foundation while allowing carefully governed differentiation at the edge.

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