Vibe Coding: How Relying on Intuition Can Undermine the Development Process

By Dr Pavan Gurazada, Faculty Member in Business and AI, Great Learning

Ever since OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy introduced the term vibe coding a couple of months ago, it has quickly become a buzzword in the world of coding. Vibe coding is an AI-dependent programming technique where programmers can write prompts in simple English and rely on AI tools or platforms to generate code. They can do this irrespective of whether they have any prior knowledge of coding. They can also modify the code solely through prompts without manually reading it. Vibe coding allows programmers to write code, run tests and present the product with minimal human intervention and no documentation.

It’s easy to see the appeal of vibe coding since it allows for creativity and intuition to be the main fuel of the coding process. It also offers more room for experimentation without needing to ...