“No vibe coding while I’m on call!” declared Jessie Young, Principal Engineer at GitLab, encapsulating the fierce debate dividing the software development world. On one side stand cautious veterans like Brendan Humphreys, CTO of Canva, who insists, “No, you won’t be vibe coding your way to production.” On the other hand, technology giants like Google co-founder Sergey Brin actively encourage engineers to embrace AI-generated code, reporting “10 to 100x speedups” in productivity.

“Vibe coding”—a term coined by AI pioneer Dr. Andrej Karpathy, key architect behind ChatGPT at OpenAI—has rapidly evolved from casual meme to industry-transforming methodology. In their forthcoming book Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software with GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond, technology veterans Gene Kim and Steve Yegge wade into this contentious territory with a bold claim: this isn’t just another development fad but a fundamental paradigm shift that will render traditional manual coding obsolete. — Read More