I am working on a piece for Weekly Workforce in order to understand the current software landscape for freelance talent platforms and knowledge worker agencies.

The goal is to make a market map like this and be able to share this information back with you all in a bit of an industry report.

Ask - ANSWER 5 QUESTIONS IN 3 MINUTES.

Shouldn't take more than a few minutes to complete (3 minutes, 5 questions) - would love to know if you've built or bought various pieces of technology and the provider name to create the market map.

✨ Vibe Shift ✨

This isn’t a paid ad - I’m just in love with a new tool. It is, however, a referral link.

This week, I rebuilt our entire AI Maturity Index website using Relume.

The whole thing took only a few hours from soup to nuts. Something that would’ve taken days or weeks before. The process?

Sitemap: Wrote a few sentences about our business and got an entire sitemap in seconds
Wireframes: Dragged and dropped component themes on the sitemap and got instant wireframes
Copy & components: Fiddled with AI-generated copy and swapped out a few components in a couple of clicks.
Design: Adopted the AI-generated UI color-schemes I randomly generated while maintaining our brand vibes
Launch: Exported directly to Webflow and published

We're entering an era where technology bends to intuition rather than the other way around. Where feeling your way through creation is becoming as valid as following rigid technical processes. I'm calling it the great vibe shift, and it's changing everything from how we build to how we invest and structure our careers.

💻️ Vibe Coding: Feel Your Way to Functional

Remember when coding meant memorizing syntax and debugging for hours? That era is fading. Vibe coding is about expressing intent and letting AI handle the technical translation. It's GitHub Copilot finishing your lines of code before you type them. It's telling Claude what you want your website to accomplish and watching it generate functional HTML. It's dragging elements in Webflow and seeing responsive designs take shape.

The magic of vibe coding isn't just about making tech more accessible—it's about preserving the human creative spark that technical barriers often extinguish. When you're not fighting with syntax, you can focus on what you're actually trying to create.

🧠 The Polymath Paradigm

What these shifts point to is the rise of the generalist—the neo-polymath who can move fluidly between disciplines because the tools no longer require specialized training. We're watching the democratization of creation in real-time.

Consider this: DaVinci couldn't have been DaVinci if he needed a computer science degree to express his mathematical ideas, or if artistic tools were locked behind years of formal training. Today's tools are removing those barriers, letting more people operate across domains.

When I used Relume to design our site, Claude to refine the copy, and Webflow to publish it, I wasn't an expert in any of those tools (although Claude really is Bae). But the interfaces were intuitive enough that my vision could translate into reality without specialized knowledge.

🚀 Getting Started

If you're curious about this new landscape but unsure where to begin, here's your pathway:

💡 Start with a real problem you care about.
My website needed a refresh, so I had skin in the game. Choose something small but meaningful.
🔧 Choose tools that speak your language.
If you're visually oriented, try Relume or Framer to design beautiful interfaces without a design background. If you think in words, begin with Claude or ChatGPT to draft your ideas and generate functional code.
🤗 Embrace rapid iteration with the right tools.
Your first attempt will be mediocre. That's the point. Tools like Cursor (an AI-native code editor that thinks alongside you), Lovable (intuitive product design), and Webflow (turning designs into functional sites without traditional coding) shine when you can quickly refine and iterate based on what feels right.

What makes these tools revolutionary isn't just their power, it's their approachability. They meet you where your intuition is, not where years of technical training would have taken you.

The Feeling Forward

This vibe shift doesn't mean expertise is obsolete. Rather, it suggests that intuition and cross-domain thinking are becoming competitive advantages in a world where technical barriers continue to fall.

The future belongs to those who can feel their way forward—who can sense connections between disparate fields, who can articulate a vision and leverage these new tools to bring it to life.

Start building.

P.S. Shoutout to my AI Maturity Index co-creator Iwo who is constantly pushing me to build on my own lol I did it!

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📚️ Term of the Week 📚️

Vibe Investing verb | STARTUP TERM

an investment approach that prioritizes intuition and feeling over traditional metrics - backing founders and ideas that 'feel right' before data confirms the trend, often identifying emerging opportunities at the intersection of different domains and industries.

_{Related terms: gut-feeling investing, intuition-based VC,pattern recognition}

That’s all for now, pals. See ya next week.

Eryn

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