10 professional developers on the true promise and peril of vibe coding

Is vibe coding the future of software or a security nightmare in disguise? Here's how experienced developers are responding to the latest AI-fueled coding craze.

The internet (and especially my inbox) has been awash with buzz about vibe coding. Vibe coding, if you've been living under a rock for the past few weeks, is the practice of letting an AI guide your coding while you sit back, drink coffee, watch YouTube videos, and play Cities: Skylines 2, all while taking to Reddit and sharing your opinion on the ranking of Star Wars vs. Star Trek vs. Stargate.

For the record, it's Stargate, then Star Trek, then Star Wars, but I digress. Seriously, vibe coding was a term coined by a former OpenAI founder and master programmer who waxed poetic about using an AI to do a lot of his coding's more prosaic work ...