"Ten years ago, programming meant typing code into a blank word processor and editing it manually. But with the advent of generative AI, this type of programming is quickly becoming a thing of the past, he explained. "More and more, you can take a step back from the code, and you can ask an AI to go do end-to-end tasks for you," Truell said at the Fortune Brainstorm AI conference earlier this month."
""Vibe coding refers to a method of coding with AI where you kind of close your eyes and you don't look at the code at all and you just ask the AI to go build the thing for you," he said. Truell likened it to building a house by putting up four walls and a roof without knowing what's going on under the floorboards or with the wiring."
""If you close your eyes and you don't look at the code and you have AIs build things with shaky foundations as you add another floor, and another floor, and another floor, and another floor, things start to kind of crumble," he said. With Cursor, by contrast, programmers can embed AI directly into the integrated development environment where programmers write their code."
Programming has shifted from manual typing and editing toward generative AI that can perform end-to-end coding tasks. AI-assisted coding exists on levels from simple mockups to advanced system development, and excessive reliance on fully automated 'vibe coding' can produce fragile, poorly understood codebases. Vibe coding involves asking AI to build features without inspecting underlying code, which risks shaky foundations analogous to constructing a house without checking wiring or floorboards. Embedding AI into integrated development environments allows tools to use surrounding code or entire repositories to predict lines, offer multi-line autocomplete, and generate full functions, improving reliability over blind automation.
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