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Exactly one year ago, Andrey Karpaty first publicly formulated the term «vibecoding» — a method of programming in which the key role is played not by writing code manually, but by interacting with AI. This is an approach where the developer sets the direction, describes the idea in words, adjusts the «mood» of the solution, and a significant part of the code is generated by AI. Over the past year, vibecoding has gone from a half-joking concept to a real practice used by indie developers, startups, and individual teams in large companies. For some, it’s a way to quickly assemble a prototype or pet project, for others, it’s a new level of abstraction in programming, where the engineer is more like an architect and editor than a «person who writes code line by line.»

A full-scale war has become the backdrop against which Ukrainian IT teams have been working for several years. I am writing this text from the perspective of a person who simultaneously works as a QA Manager in an American team and as a Head of QA in a Ukrainian one. This means daily balancing between different cultures, expectations, work paces, and a completely different level of sense of reality. For most of us, this is not a temporary crisis, but a new reality: air raid sirens during rallies, unstable connectivity, and recently, the bitter cold of winter, relocations, losses, and emotional burnout. At the same time, the clients we work with are all abroad and live in a completely different context. At this point, the manager finds himself between two worlds: the team in Ukraine and the global business. And it is how he builds processes, communication, and support that determines not only the result, but also the team’s ability to grow.

In the world of programming, the term “stress tolerance” is often just a cliché on a resume. However, for Oleksandr Viter, Senior Python Developer, this concept has acquired a completely new, physical meaning. Twice in two weeks, Russian “shaheeds” hit Oleksandr’s apartment in Odessa and almost completely destroyed his home. We talked to the IT guy about how to act in such a situation, who to contact and who came to the rescue first.