“Vibe Coding” vs. Reality

"Vibe Coding" vs Reality Published Mar 19, 2025 There's a trend on social media where many repeat Andrej Karpathy's words (archived): "give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists." This belief — like many flawed takes humanity holds — comes from laziness, inexperience, and self-deluding imagination. It is called "Vibe Coding." "Embrace the exponentials" sounds like it came from an NFT junkie. Like the NFT crowd, there is a bubble of unreality they cling to justifying their perception of the world. Producing software is now more accessible as newer tools allow people to describe what they want in a natural language to a large language model (LLM). This idea is catching on because LLM agents are now accessible to anyone willing to subscribe to vendors like Cursor, GitHub, Windsurf, and others. These editors have an "agent" option where users can request something and in response changes are made to the appropriate files, rather than only the file ... Read full article.