Vibe Coding 2.0: How to Build, Manage, and Scale Software as a Non-Technical Knowledge Worker or Solopreneur with Dan Sears & Garrett Kelly
The "Vibe Coding" honeymoon is over. In 2026, anyone can prompt an AI to write a script, but 95% of non-technical builders hit "The Wall" at the 48-hour mark: Drift. The AI gets confused, the code breaks, and the project dies.
To move from "playing with AI" to shipping software that works, you need a professional Agentic stack and OS.
In this 50-minute masterclass, we deep-dive into the state-of-the-art workflow used by high-leverage founders and managers to build robust, scalable tools without a traditional dev team.
What We’ll Cover:
The Terminal Edge: Why Claude Code is the 2026 gold standard for file-system-level engineering (and why web-chat is for amateurs).
Solving the Drift Problem: An introduction to Precode OS—the open-source anti-drift layer that keeps your AI aligned with your logic as your codebase grows.
The Architecture of Intent: How to move from "Prompting" to "Orchestrating" for simple to complex multi-file applications.
Career Sovereignty: How tech-adjacent managers are using agentic engineering to upskill themselves, automate workflows and ship MVPs in weekends.
The Result: You will leave with a clear roadmap to becoming a "Technical Knowledge Worker"; someone who can translate their business knowledge and logic into stable, working software at the speed of thought.
Speaker Bios:
Dan Sears is an executive operator and commercial leader who helps frontier tech companies solve for PMF, build high-growth enterprise product and platform businesses, and scale GTM in fast-changing markets. He has spent 15 years operationalizing and commercializing AI, data platforms, and marketplace products across areas including LLMs, ML, NLP, conversational AI, recommendation systems, expert systems, HealthTech, FinTech, and SportsTech. Dan has held 25 years of P&L ownership across pre-IPO startups, enterprise companies, and product and data strategy consulting practices.
His work has contributed to more than $700M in attributable revenue, more than 20 strategic Big Tech alliances, and more than 70 executive-level client engagements with companies including Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Salesforce, Snowflake, Capital One, PayPal, eBay, and Cisco.
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Garrett Kelly is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of NextStep, a consulting firm that helps startup leaders with strategy and planning, operational excellence, and people-first leadership. He operates as a fractional consultant, advisor, and executive coach.
At Swimply he led Customer Support, Trust and Safety, Insurance and was responsible for establishing OKRs and KPIs, core values, and prioritization across the business.
At AirBnB, Garrett led a 500+ Safety team’s product, process, and people strategies while managing the most urgent and sensitive community issues imaginable.