10 professional developers on vibe coding's true promise and peril
Published on: 2025-06-01 01:50:00
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The internet (and especially my inbox) has been awash with buzz about vibe coding, 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.
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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 that marketing folks can attach to their coding tools, making those tools immediately sound a notch cooler than they were on their own. I know, because as an AI columnist, I get press releases. I get a lot of press releases.
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Unfortunately, the marketing folks who wasted no time adopting the term and v
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