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# An interview with Replit CEO Amjad, A profile of Tatyana Kim, founder of, Restoring Childhood: How to Set Kids
- URL: https://adjacent.media/weekend/2026-08-09-long-read/
- Published: 2026-08-09T11:04:31.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-09T11:04:31.000Z
- Description: This week: an interview with Replit’s CEO on what “vibe coding” is actually doing to the software business, a deep profile of the woman running Russia’s largest online retailer through a war that’s eating her warehouses, and a philosophical case for letting children take more risks than current pare
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #long-read, #weekend

This week: an interview with Replit's CEO on what "vibe coding" is actually doing to the software business, a deep profile of the woman running Russia's largest online retailer through a war that's eating her warehouses, and a philosophical case for letting children take more risks than current parenting culture allows.

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*Platformer · 28 minutes*

> Vibe coding was never about coding. It's about collapsing the distance between having an idea and having a product.

#### [A profile of Tatyana Kim, founder of Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries, which has lost an estimated third of its warehouse space to Ukrainian attacks](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/world/europe/russia-wildberries-tatyana-kim.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.31A.lizT.19wq63dNxZ%5FO&smid=url-share&ref=adjacent.media)

A profile built on contradiction: Tatyana Kim built Wildberries into a retail empire that made her one of Russia's richest women, and now watches it absorb literal war damage — a third of her warehouse capacity gone to drone and missile strikes — while continuing to operate, hire, and expand inside a wartime economy that has learned to normalize this kind of loss. The Times traces Kim's rise from a maternity-leave side hustle to a company that functions as essential civilian infrastructure, then follows the harder story: a bitter, public feud with her estranged husband over control of the company, playing out against sanctions, capital flight, and the strangeness of running a Western-style e-commerce giant in a country increasingly cut off from the West. It's a rare, granular look at what business continuity actually looks like inside a sanctioned wartime economy, told through one specific, stubborn person rather than through macro statistics.

*The New York Times · 22 minutes*

#### [Restoring Childhood: How to Set Kids Free in the Age of Anxiety](https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/08/restoring-childhood-how-to-set-kids-free-in-the-age-of-anxiety.html?utm%5Fsource=rss&utm%5Fmedium=rss&utm%5Fcampaign=restoring-childhood-how-to-set-kids-free-in-the-age-of-anxiety)

Tyler Cowen's engagement with Peter Gray's new book takes the form of a genuine wrestling match with an argument that runs against most of contemporary parenting culture: that children need unsupervised risk, boredom, and independent play far more than they need enrichment, supervision, or safety engineering. Gray's case, as Cowen lays it out, is a philosophy about what childhood is *for*, built on research into play, self-directed learning, and the psychological costs of a generation raised inside constant adult oversight — not nostalgia about screens. Cowen pushes back in places, testing where Gray's prescriptions hold up against economic and cultural realities parents actually face, which keeps the piece from being a simple endorsement. It's a rare long-form treatment of a debate usually conducted in tweet-length panic, and worth the time for anyone who wants the actual argument rather than the headline version of "kids need more free play."

*Marginal Revolution · 18 minutes*