Thoughts about vibe coding

I love it. It rekindled my joy of programming.

You see, for 30 years now, I more or less do trivial tasks 95% of my time. I move buttons around and change colors. I do a REST request, parse some JSON and fill the data in a table. Boring, boring, boring. With vibe coding something else can do these kinds of tasks for me and I just need to check its work. Even better — it does it faster than me and doesn't complain! Thank you GenAI!

I could end this post here, but there's a catch. GenAI is Generative AI, not General AI. It combines things it has seen before. It cannot invent the next software paradigm. That's why we still need great developers — to invent the next Node.js, Git, or programming language. To write the first code and documentation. Only after that can models learn from it.

So yes, vibe coding is great. But let's not become a society where software development is frozen at 2024 level, with nothing new on the horizon, except the next GenAI powered tool.