10 professional developers on the true promise and peril of vibe coding

sankai/Getty Images The internet (and especially my inbox) has been awash with buzz about vibe coding. Vibe coding, if you've been living under a rock for the past few weeks, is the practice of letting an AI guide your coding while you sit back, drink coffee, watch YouTube videos, and play Cities: Skylines 2, all while taking to Reddit and sharing your opinion on the ranking of Star Wars vs. Star Trek vs. Stargate. For the record, it's Stargate, then Star Trek, then Star Wars, but I digress. Seriously, vibe coding was a term coined by a former OpenAI founder and master programmer who waxed poetic about using an AI to do a lot of his coding's more prosaic work. I went into substantial depth about that post and the definition of vibe coding in my previous article on the topic. Also: 10 key reasons AI went mainstream overnight - and what happens next The term, though, is sticky as heck. By sticky, I mean that it resonated enough to be both cool on its own and be an immediate adjective ... Read full article.