For managers, product owners, and other non-technical professionals, the growing ecosystem of vibe-coding tools - platforms that let you describe what you want and automatically generate functioning code - opens the door to a new era of participation in the development process. Instead of wrestling with syntax or learning full programming languages, managers can now use structured prompts, open source vibe coding tools, plain English instructions, and iterative refinement to create scripts, prototypes, dashboards, automations, and even full applications.
The state of AI in software engineering report from Harness, based on a Coleman Parker poll of 900 software engineers in the US, UK, France and Germany, found that almost two-thirds of the people surveyed (63%) are already using artificial intelligence (AI) tools for code generation, and just over half (51%) anticipate that AI tools will significantly impact the speed of code creation.
