The vibe coding conversation in legal has gone full culture war: one side says they've built a billion-dollar startup in 10 minutes, the other says don't bother. The truth — as usual — is far more interesting than either extreme.

🎙️This week we sit down with Chris Bridges (Co-Founder & COO, Tacit Legal) and Matt Pollins (Co-Founder & CPO, Lupl) — two legal technologists who live in the same small town in West Sussex and who've channelled that proximity into building vibecode.law, an open-source platform where the legal community can share, discover and upvote vibe-coded legal tech projects.

The platform launched just over a week before we recorded and already had 18 projects — from a SaaS inflation calculator for contract lawyers to a Harvey for Mongolian law to a tool that unlocks track changes when a passive-aggressive opposing lawyer has locked them down.

During our chat, we explore:

• Why vibe coding's real value is compressing the feedback loop between idea and prototype — not replacing developers 
• The structural gap: how 25 years of developer tooling (linting, testing, documentation, standards) gives engineering focussed AI tools a head start that legal tech can't shortcut 
• Why the adversarial nature of law makes standardisation fundamentally harder than in software 
• vibecode.law: what it is, the projects landing on it, and the product thinking behind building a two-sided community 
• Responsible vibe coding and why we're probably 6–12 months from a data exposure incident 
• The T-shaped lawyer: curiosity as the defining skill for the next generation

Connect with our guests:

Chris Bridges — tacit.legal | author of When will legal vibe like code

Matt Pollins — agents.law | lupl.com

Check out vibecode.law to explore or submit your own projects.

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