Vibe Coding to Superintelligence: Inside Alexandr Wang’s Worldview

In 2021, at just 24, Alexandr Wang became the world's youngest self-made billionaire when Scale AI the company he co-founded in 2016 after dropping out of MIT hit a $7.3 billion valuation. 

Scale AI provided high-quality labeled data and model evaluations that power everything from self-driving cars to chatbots. One LinkedIn post called out Scale's data-labeling model for low-wage work overseas asserting that he made his fortune arbitraging the difference between low wages in countries he outsourced to, like Venezuela, Kenya and Ethiopia, where he paid less than $2/hr in wages and high prices he charged American AI companies and the US Dept of Defense, for human labeling of AI training data. 

At 28, he has become Meta's chief AI officer, leading the shiny new Meta Superintelligence Labs. In June 2025, Meta Platforms purchased 49% of Scale AI in a $14.3 billion deal and Wang moved to work for Meta.  

In interviews, Wang (now "radicalized by AI coding") predicts that traditional coding will soon be obsolete. His advice to 13-year-olds is blunt: "Spend all your time vibe coding. That’s how you should live your life."

"Vibe coding" is shorthand for this shift: using natural-language prompts to generate and iterate on code. Instead of wrestling with syntax, users describe intent and let AI produce working prototypes. The real skill, Wang argues, isn’t writing code, it’s developing intuition by pushing AI tools to their limits.

That’s why he urges Gen Alpha to start early. What matters now isn’t mastering a language or syntax, but spending time experimenting with, steering, and learning how to collaborate effectively with AI.

Wang is especially bullish on hardware. Like many executives at Meta, he sees the company’s new smart glasses as the “natural delivery mechanism for superintelligence.”

Meta is betting heavily on this idea through partnerships with Ray-Ban and Oakley, rolling out a tiered lineup of AI glasses. The range spans camera and audio-first models to a newer version with an integrated transparent display. All of them are built around hands-free capture, Meta AI assistance, and control via voice or a companion wristband.

You can soon "wear" superintelligence 

- co-written with Grok

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