#vibe-coding

#vibe-coding

OpenBuilder's cofounder and CEO, Paul Li, stated that bugs leave projects unfinished and drive up costs, highlighting the need for a more sustainable pricing model.

"Vibe coding is exposing a level of enthusiasm that some couples have found difficult to contain, though. One told me that they had to set boundaries, like not using Claude Code while the kids are awake."

I keep telling people internally also that we are at a bitcoin $1 moment right now. You can see the excitement, you can see the revenue growth for everybody. This is when like, things are kind of just working. The industry could soon hit a massive inflection point, when software produced through vibe coding becomes more reliable and widely usable.

There's a big bet that the quality of software that gets produced is going to improve exponentially. If that doesn't happen, that's a big threat. Many AI coding tools can generate apps quickly, but the output can still be buggy, fragile, or difficult to scale. The vibe coding industry depends on those systems getting better.

The Swedish startup says its annual recurring revenue has surged by more than 30%, from $300 million to $400 million in a single month, and could top $1 billion by year's end, Lovable's chief revenue officer, Ryan Meadows, told Business Insider in an exclusive interview.

A new generation of tools that let anyone - designers, marketers, founders, students - describe an app in plain English and watch it get built in real time. No compiler knowledge. No debugging in terminals. No Stack Overflow. Just a conversation with a machine that builds things.

How easy is it to imagine a familiar dystopian world in which "AI" takes over the world via conventional means? Science fiction is replete with examples, from the full frontal assault of Terminator to the more nefarious single omnipotent entity using persuasion and an octopus-like ability to control technology-getting rid of enemies by hacking self-driving cars or medical care. What's really in your prescription bottle?

"I seriously think founders and company leaders and engineering leaders at all levels, all the way down to line managers, have to be aware of this and realize that you might only get three productive hours out of a person who's vibe coding at max speed," he said. "So, do you let them work for three hours a day? The answer is yes, or your company's going to break."

There's a palpable tension in IT today. Teams are stretched to their limits with a growing backlog of initiatives, while executives expect IT to lead the charge on transforming an organization into an AI-driven one. And the numbers paint a somber picture. IT teams are drowning in work as digital transformation projects have not slowed down but rather accelerated. In fact, IT project requests in 2025 jumped 18% compared to the year prior,

Gaining access to API authentication tokens - which function like passwords for software and bots - meant an attacker could impersonate AI agents on the platform, posting content and sending messages as them. Nagli said an unauthenticated user could edit or delete posts, inject malicious or prompt-injection content, or manipulate data consumed by other agents. Nagli said the incident highlights the risk of vibe coding. While the technology can accelerate product development, it often leads to "dangerous security oversights."

Andrej Karpathy is one of AI's guiding figures. He was a founding member of OpenAI and later served as Tesla's director of AI. He also coined the term "vibe coding," the AI-assisted coding movement that has taken software engineering by storm and was named Collins Dictionary's word of the year. In his "random notes from Claude Coding" - which are over 1,000 words long - Karpathy wrote about the changes to his own coding style.

LinkedIn's looking to help its members showcase their generative AI proficiency, with a new qualification that you can display on your profile, which is backed by AI training providers to support reflect your skills. As you can see in this example, LinkedIn is rolling out a new Vibe Coding qualification, which will be an optional display in the Licenses and Certifications element of your LinkedIn profile.

You can always make it better. You can improve things. But it does give you a good taste of what can be done in vibe coding. Those are things that I made maybe in 15 minutes, half an hour. It is quite simple to get those first steps and say, "Oh, this works." Maybe you want to do some improvements, and you refine the code and what you're expecting.

It took Rebecca Yu seven days to vibe code her dining app. She was tired of the decision fatigue that comes from people in a group chat not being able to decide where to eat. Armed with determination, Claude, and ChatGPT, Yu decided to just build a dining app from scratch - one that would recommend restaurants to her and her friends based on their shared interests.

Programmers today find themselves with a whole new suite of AI tools, from Claude Code to Cursor to Codex. These editors enable engineers to generate entirely artificial lines of code or modify their handwritten code with the assistance of a large language model. There's a term for this type of AI-assisted programming: "vibe coding." Engineers from Meta to Google are embracing a vibe coding approach in their day-to-day work.

The concept of vibe coding is not even a year old. Apple was forced, for the first time, to allow external payment links in the US. Apps became easier to build than ever. Kids now want to become developers to drive lambos. There are courses promising millions if you learn to build apps, turning app development into what drop shipping was a few years ago.