CFO Puts On Backwards Hat To ‘Vibe Code’ Quarterly Budget Spreadsheet

AI satire illustration: CFO Puts On Backwards Hat To 'Vibe Code' Quarterly Budget Spreadsheet

PALO ALTOBy Kevin Spacebar, AI Bee Reel Staff

January 22, 2026

NEW YORK, NY — Clad in a stiff grey suit and a backwards Yankees cap, CFO Walter Higgins sat in the main boardroom ‘vibe coding’ the Q4 projections while junior analysts watched in pure horror. Higgins reportedly spent forty minutes nodding rhythmically to total silence before hitting the enter key a single time.

“I am not just doing math, I am shipping product,” said Higgins, adjusting his silk tie while maintaining the backwards hat aesthetic. “The numbers are just the paint, and I am the artist.” Datarails recently announced new AI tools designed to automate the weeks finance teams usually spend manually copy-pasting charts into PowerPoint slides to explain why the money is gone.

“He keeps shouting ‘we are so back’ every time a cell turns green,” noted Senior Analyst Jessica Wu, staring blankly at her cold salad. “He thinks he is hacking the mainframe, but he is just using an AI prompt to make the bar graph blue. I honestly miss the manual data entry.”

At press time, Higgins was seen asking IT for a mechanical keyboard so his “vibe coding” would sound louder during the board meeting.

Inspired by the real story: Datarails launched an AI tool that lets CFOs automate financial storytelling, turning boring spreadsheet work into a “vibe coding” experience. Read the full story.

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