There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.
How People Are Using AI For Vibe Coding
In 2025, people “vibe code” by asking Claude, Cursor/o3, and Comet to build and modify software end-to-end—pushing PRs without reading the code, one-shotting games and web apps, wiring databases via MongoDB’s MCP, and even generating thousands of projects (one team reports $48,952.95 in model spend with zero human-written code). The tradeoffs show up quickly: posts describe production friction and outdated dependencies, loss of code understanding and fast-accumulating tech debt, and a security failure where a vibe-coded app exposed user data via a simple GET; practical mitigations include asking the agent to clean, de-bloat, and document after it finishes. Tools keep lowering the bar (Gemini 2.5 Pro for coding; OSS agent platforms that read/write files and run commands), but the guidance is to use vibe coding for prototypes or constrained features and apply human review before scale.
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