vibe coding
Building software by describing what you want and accepting what comes back, without reading much of it.
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Noah Smith quoted
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
Their wordswe're all going to die of vibe-coded superviruses in the next few years
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Simon Willison quoted
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette
Our readingVibe coded games could be taken seriously
Their wordsbut I can now see a path to vibe coded games like this being taken seriously.
↗Battle Drones - a vibe coded RTS with audio-based multiplayersimonwillison.net
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer
Their wordsAmong tech companies that have built their own coding agent harness that runs in their cloud, I expect many to build internal vibe-coding tools for non-engineers like Stripe and Ramp have done.
- 3 weeks earlier
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Our readingThe less one is required to dig into the details, the easier it is to see the big picture.
Their wordsThe less you're required the dig into the details, the easier it is to see the big picture.
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsAI doesn’t change it just easier to hack stuff together. That is not engineering tho ofc you don’t always need engineering
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Cory Doctorow quoted
Science fiction novelist, journalist and activist
Their wordsI am highly skeptical of vibe-coding in the sense of writing code for other people to use.
↗Pluralistic: Itch scratching (25 Sep 2026)pluralistic.net 1st of 3 in this piece
- 6 days earlier
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Thorsten Ball quoted
Co-founder of Amp and co-host of the Raising an Agent podcast
Their wordsin the future, humans won’t find a bug or an issue with the code produced by a model, at least not in a reasonable time. Humans will only review the system and its composition, but it won’t be in PRs and it won’t be by looking through every line of the code.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentthorstenball.com 1st of 15 in this piece
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Mario Zechner quoted
Austrian developer who created the libGDX game framework
Their wordsSOTA frontier models will still fuck you up bad behind your back, especially if you don't read your code anymore.
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsvibe coding is not dead: Non-eng teams inside of tech companies are just getting started with this approach, building on top of internal “harnesses for non eng teams” They are also learning limitations of “vibe coding” v quickly!
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Pieter Levels quoted
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone
Their wordsNormies don't vibe code, they just ask something like "do my bookkeeping" or "file my tax" or "organize a movie night and send invites" or "generate a flyer for movie night" or "edit my video" They don't ever see code, vibe code, or do anything with code, their AI chat app just does it for them
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Pieter Levels quoted
Their wordsNow that building anything has become quite trivial, catching attention is now the most important skill I think
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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
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Matt Webb quoted
British designer and technologist
Their wordsThere needs to be a protocol for discovering and sharing this new abundance of apps
↗New app: Yesterday, an iPhone app for yesterday’s weatherinterconnected.org 2nd of 3 in this piece
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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
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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
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Casey Muratori quoted
Game and engine programmer
Their wordsit's more about what do you want to do? Like what why are you spending this time, right? It's a philosophical question, not a productivity question.
↗Why performant code matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratoriyoutube.com 24th of 26 in this recording
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
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
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsThe language now is English. It's a cliche, but it's also true. Like I've been programming in English for the last three months. I've been reading a lot of code, but I'm programming in English. I'm telling the computer what to do, and I'm using natural language, and it is shockingly even more delightful. If there is one programming language more beautiful than Ruby, it is the English language.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com 33rd of 41 in this recording
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Charity Majors quoted
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb
Their wordsWhat I was saying in that piece though was, I think we were right to be skeptical that time. But now, I see the same thing playing out with would you be willing to ship it some code you didn't read? There's no point in arguing about if it will happen or when it will happen. Talk about what it would take.
↗Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majorsyoutube.com 4th of 26 in this recording
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Charity Majors quoted
Their wordsOkay, if I'm not going to read this code, how do I know it's going to perform within boundaries of the last code that I generated? That is conformance testing.
↗Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majorsyoutube.com 11th of 26 in this recording
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Charity Majors quoted
Their wordsIf you're debiting from this trust account in the creation of the code, it has to get built up somewhere else.
↗Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majorsyoutube.com 12th of 26 in this recording
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Tobias Lütke quoted
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify
Their wordsYou can literally just wish for the tools you want now. Omarchy has every skill to make them. It’s magical.
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Max Hodak quoted
Co-founder and chief executive of Science
Their wordsWell, I mean, okay, even the whole basis of building Helix is contrarian. Like, I think that if you raise a series A and then you tell your investors that you're going to vibe code a purchasing system, I think that any reasonable board is going to like ask you what you're thinking.
↗Max Hodak: Average Is Not Good Enoughyoutube.com 22nd of 22 in this recording
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Pieter Levels quoted
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
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Salvatore Sanfilippo quoted
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C
Our readingVibe coding misunderstands what automatic programming is and will become for most people.
Their wordsVibe coding is a wrong idea of what automatic programming is, and of what automatic programming will be for the majority of people.
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Jason Fried quoted
Co-founder and CEO of 37signals (Basecamp, HEY)
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.
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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.
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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
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Elizabeth Stone quoted
Chief Product and Technology Officer at Netflix
Our readingThat AI lets anyone prototype does not mean everyone should be shipping code to production.
Their wordsDo I believe that means anyone should be shipping code to production? That everyone should actually be doing everything? Probably not. But I think that it's good for people to be exploring what's possible.
↗Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)youtube.com 2nd of 20 in this recording