Lazar Jovanovic

Lazar Jovanovic holds the title of first official vibe coding engineer at Lovable, the fastest-growing startup in history at time of recording. He has no software engineering background (forestry engineering degree, then community management and startup operations roles). He began vibe coding in July 2024, built in public on LinkedIn and YouTube, and was hired by Lovable’s head of growth Elena Verna. He built Lovable’s Shopify integration templates, the Lovable merch store, and numerous internal analytics tools.

In the wiki

• Lazar Jovanovic on Vibe Coding as a Profession, the Genie Framework, and PRD-Driven Development — clarity as the professional skill, four-parallel-builds method, PRD-driven development (masterplan.md, tasks.md), four-by-four debugging, judgment and taste as durable skills

Key concepts

• Genie framework: the analogy for context window management; the AI grants the wish you describe, not the one you intended
• PRD-driven development: using planning documents (masterplan.md, implementation.md, design-guidelines.md, user-journey.md, tasks.md) to give the agent persistent context across sessions
• Four parallel builds: starting five simultaneous projects with varying levels of specificity to converge on the right design direction without committing tokens to refinement
• Four-by-four debugging: a four-step unblocking sequence (try-to-fix → console logging → external diagnostic → revert and re-prompt)