What Chris Wellons thinks about vibe coding
Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Chris Wellons has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingAI tools are now highly effective at generating UI code from a rough natural-language description
Their wordsThis is just one of many situations I've used AI the past month for UI development, and it's been shockingly effective.
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