vibe coding
Building software by describing what you want and accepting what comes back, without reading much of it.
FilterEveryone, all time
- PL
Pieter Levels quoted
Their wordsA regular boring but non-superficial SaaS app would do well 5 years ago but now it might not get anyone to sign up because it's so easy to vibe code by tens of thousands of other people
- 6 days earlier
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsAnd we ended up with a lot of PRs that individually perhaps could have been justified for a hot moment, taken all together, destroyed the architecture of the system. And we actually had to clean up manually, mop it up by hand, by human hand, to get back to an architecture that felt cohesive and coherent.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com 4th of 41 in this recording
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsAnd vibe coding, if we define it here, is you tell an agent to build software for you. You do not look at the implementation. That, to me, is what separates vibe coding from programming or, let's say, agent-accelerated development.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com 12th of 41 in this recording
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsIt is an infuriatingly locked-down computer. Now, to Apple's credit, it's a pretty good computer for being locked down, but I don't want a locked-down computer. I wanna own my computer. Better yet, I wanna mutate my computer, and this is where the agentic age needs a new operating system. When you can vibe code whatever app comes to your mind, you should be able to vibe code your operating system.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com 21st of 41 in this recording
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Our readingA sense of achievement in software survives writing almost none of the code yourself.
Their wordsSo it's strange because it's also perhaps the major software release that I've worked on the least in terms of lines of code. I have the least number of personally hand-chiseled lines of code in Quattro than I've had in any major release I've ever done. And yet, I am insanely proud of what we've accomplished.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com 31st of 41 in this recording
- 2 weeks earlier
- TL
Tobias Lütke quoted
Their wordsYou can literally just wish for the tools you want now. Omarchy has every skill to make them. It’s magical.
- 2 weeks earlier
- PL
Pieter Levels quoted
Our readingMost SaaS subscriptions can now be replaced by software you vibecode for yourself.
Their wordsI cancelled and then vibecoded 100% of my SaaS subscriptions I only pay for domains, server hosting and storage and AI APIs
↗I cancelled all my SaaS subscriptions and vibecoded 100% of them myselflevels.io
- 2 days earlier
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Jason Fried quoted
Our readingHow fast or hard a product was made says nothing about whether the product is good
Their wordsThe speed at which a product is developed doesn't inherently make the product better or worse. The number of commits doesn't make the product better or worse. The number of people or agents working on it doesn't make it better or worse.
- JF
Jason Fried quoted
Our readingConfusing how something was made with what was made is confusing the kitchen for the meal
Their wordsMistaking making for the thing you've made is like confusing the kitchen for the meal or the blueprint for the building. They're connected, but they're not the same thing. One of them matters a whole lot more than the other.
- 4 days earlier
- PL
Pieter Levels quoted
Our reading · no longer heldNow that everyone can build apps with AI, distribution is the thing that separates who wins.
No longer holdsI thought it'd be distribution but who knows, obviously creativity and ideas, but if you can copy a successful app in an hour, then how does that differentiating work?
SaidI thought it'd be distribution but who knows, obviously creativity and ideas, but if you can copy a successful app in an hour, then how does that differentiating work?
↗Superintelligence has passed us and we're all running after the carrotlevels.io
- 6 weeks earlier
- PL
Pieter Levels quoted
Our readingNow that everyone can build apps with AI, distribution is the thing that separates who wins.
Their wordsI think the challenge is that everyone can now build apps But 1) almost nobody has distribution (like an audience), or 2) the money to pay for distribution (ads or UGC), or 3) the creative genius to get distribution for free (classically called guerilla marketing)
↗Everyone can now build apps with AI so now distribution is the real challengelevels.io
- 4 months earlier
- PS
Peter Steinberger quoted
Their wordsI actually think vibe coding is a slur.
↗OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491youtube.com 9th of 30 in this recording
- 4 months earlier
- FC
Frank Chimero quoted
Their wordsSo while vibe coding may be useful for short-term work, it’s not a suitable approach for anything intended to last longer than a tub of yogurt. Time saved is not strength gained, so I went looking for other examples about how to work with the machine.
- 3 months earlier
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsYou're gonna learn in this superficial way that feels like learning, but is completely empty calories. And secondly, if you can just vibe code it, you're not a programmer.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast #474youtube.com 13th of 36 in this recording
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsEditing, in my opinion, is the reward, the capacity to be a good editor is the reward you get from being a good doer. You have to be a doer first.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast #474youtube.com 14th of 36 in this recording
- 4 months earlier
- JZ
Julie Zhuo quoted
Their wordsSay goodbye to cycles of mock and doc feedback, and say hello to code-first prototypes with constant iteration (on prompts, models, etc) to answer three key questions.
↗The Death of Product Development as We Know itlg.substack.com
- 12 days earlier
- JN
Jakob Nielsen quoted
Their wordsThe new trend toward vibe coding and vibe design may be upending the user-centered design paradigm that has remained based on the same ideology since the first UX design projects at Bell Labs, starting in 1947.
↗Does User-Driven Design Still Need User-Centered Design?jakobnielsenphd.substack.com
- 6 days earlier
- JN
Jakob Nielsen quoted
Their wordsVibe coding can execute instructions, but deciding what the software should do and why is not automated. Product managers and designers must still do user research, market analysis, and creative brainstorming. In that sense, vibe coding changes the implementation phase more than the planning phase of the product lifecycle.
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Jakob Nielsen quoted
Their wordsIn a vibe coding future, companies will hopefully invest more in understanding user needs, refining the interface, and polishing details that delight users, because those are harder for AI to get right without guidance.
- JN
Jakob Nielsen quoted
Their wordsEssentially, vibe coding makes it trivial to create front-end code, so designers can skip static mockups and go straight to building a UI that works.