Vibe Coding

Two weeks ago I started to noticed about something that’s both fascinating and slightly unsettling: vibe coding. And no, it’s not about writing code while listening to lo-fi beats (though that sounds nice too).

Vibe coding, as coined by Andrej Karpathy, is essentially “fully giving in to the vibes” and forgetting that code even exists. Instead of writing lines of code, you’re having a conversation with AI about what you want to build. It’s less about “how” and more about “what”.

Think about it: instead of googling Stack Overflow (that was so 2022, who’s still do that?) for the millionth time about that one CSS property you can never remember, you just tell an AI, “Make this button look cooler.” And it… just does it?

Even wild, you can make it independently execute 10 steps by itself.

The wild part is that it works. People are building entire applications without writing a single line of traditional code. It’s like having a really smart dev friend who does all the technical heavy lifting while you focus on the creative vision. I been using voice/STT as interface (because typing is slow) and AI IDE like Cursor since last year (even longer with voice as interface – almost 10 years till this date, can you believe it? **Dragon Dictate, hello!), and I agreed it was new paradigm even though I felt like I was cheating.

But here’s what fascinates me most: we’re moving from a world where coding was about speaking the computer’s language to one where computers are learning to speak ours. It’s not about syntax anymore—it’s about vibes.

Is this the future of software development? Maybe. Will it replace traditional coding? Probably not entirely. But it’s definitely changing how we think about building software. – I am firm believer the future is also agentic.

For now, I’m both excited and slightly terrified to see where this goes. After all, sometimes the best vibes come from understanding what’s happening under the hood.

What do you think about this shift? Are you ready to give in to the vibes?