Greg Brockman, OpenAI's cofounder, discussed the impact of 'vibe coding' on software engineering during a podcast. He noted that while AI is improving and increasingly taking over tedious coding tasks, it also removes enjoyable elements from the process, leaving developers with less appealing duties such as quality control. The rise of tools like Microsoft's Copilot has revolutionized coding, allowing fewer engineers to accomplish tasks that once required large teams, raising concerns about potential liabilities and slowing experienced developers' progress.
On an episode of Stripe's "Cheeky Pint" podcast uploaded last week, OpenAI's cofounder and president, Greg Brockman, said that AI coding will only get better. But until then, it's taking away some parts of software engineering that he said are enjoyable. "What we're going to see is AIs taking more and more of the drudgery, more of this like pain, more of the parts that are not very fun for humans," Brockman said. He added, "So far, the vibe coding has actually taken a lot of code that is actually quite fun."
Brockman added that the state of AI coding has left humans to review and deploy code, which is "not fun at all." He acknowledged the need for improvement in AI’s capabilities to facilitate a transition toward an ideal model where humans can focus on more creative aspects of software development.
Using AI to write code, dubbed "vibe coding" by OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy, has skyrocketed this year. Engineers and novices alike are using tools like Microsoft's Copilot, Cursor, and Windsurf to write code, develop games, and even build websites from scratch.
In March, Y Combinator's CEO, Gary Tan, said that vibe coding is set to transform the startup landscape. He said that what would've once taken "50 or 100" engineers to build can now be accomplished by a team of 10, "when they are fully vibe coders."
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