Google CEO Pushes 'Vibe Coding' – But Real Developers Know It's Not Magic

https://www.interviewquery.com/p/ai-coding-vibe-coding-explained

by birdculture • 8 months ago

14 13 8 months ago

Abolish this stupid, non-descriptive term.

codyswann• 8 months ago

It's very problematic for companies, mainly because of the tooling. Large companies are equating lovable, replit, bold, V0 with Claude Code, Codex, etc all under the "Vibe Coding" banner.

I try to fit the former under the banner of "Prompt-to-app Tools" and the latter as "Autonomous AI Engineering"

VerifiedReports2• 8 months ago

Better for sure.

The ascendancy of non-descriptive, jargon for everything is irritating as hell. If something is supposed to mean "AI-generated code" then it needs to contain at least the important word from that description. Sad that this has to be explained now.

more_corn• 8 months ago

That seems like a very shortsighted thing to do. Does he not understand the limitations of LLM generated code?

weikju• 8 months ago

He understands how to hype and increase the value of his shares. Everything else is insignificant

burnt-resistor• 8 months ago

It's all about wrecking the economic futures of millions for a handful of billionaires to become trillionaires. Anyone who aids them is complicit in digging their own grave and graves for their friends and colleagues. Actions have moral and ethical consequences.

aixpert• 8 months ago

i'm a real developer and it is absolutely magic! if someone showed me a demo of talking to a computer which works for one hour to find and fix my bugs all on its own five years ago I'd definitely call it magic and I still call it magic.

does it make a mistakes? yes sometimes but you can verify with tests or with lean.

aurareturn2• 8 months ago

Agreed. Imagine if a developer was in a comma for 3 years, wakes up, and sees a state of the art coding agent for the first time.

brazukadev• 8 months ago

They'll be impressed for a few months and then start to notice where it fails.

jxixjxjx• 8 months ago

I experience(d) the same level of magic when I throw keywords into google and get relevant results back. LLMs are just an extension of this kind of magic.

Their efficacy opens up a lot more possibility, but given they’re not AGI (without getting into a definitions debate) a lot of the magic is gone. Nothing fundamentally changed. I still use them a lot and they’re great, but it’s not a new paradigm (which I would then call magic).

I think the key point here too is LLMs demo like magic. You see the happy path and you think we have AGI. You show me of 10 years ago the happy path and I’d be floored until I talked to me of now and got the whole story.

cpldcpu• 8 months ago

I am not a professional software developer but instead more of multi-domain system architect and I have to say it is absolutely magical!

The public discourse about LLM assisted coding is often driven by front end developers or rather non-professionals trying to build web apps, but the value it brings to prototyping system concepts across hardware/software domains can hardly be understated.

Instead of trying to find suitable simulation environments and trying to couple them, I can simply whip up a gui based tool to play around with whatever signal chain/optimization problem/control I want to investigate. Usually I would have to find/hire people to do this, but using LLMs I can iterate ideas at a crazy cadence.

Later, implementation does of course require proper engineering.

That said, it is often confusing how different models are hyped. As mentioned, there is an overt focus on front end design etc. For the work I am doing, I found Claude 4.5 (both models) to be absolutely unchallenged. Gemini 3 Pro is also getting there, but long term agentic capability still needs to catch up. GPT 5.1/codex is excellent for brainstorming in the UX, but I found it too unresponsive and intransparent as a code assistant. It does not even matter if it can solve bugs other llms cannot find, because you should not put yourself into a situation where you don't understand the system you are building.

snowfield• 8 months ago

Agreed, I know Networks, requests, protocols, Auth flow etc but is been years since I actually coded stuff

This is magical to me.

I love cursor, I use it to deploy docker packages and fix npm issues etc too :p

I use some guardrails, like SonarQube as static code analyzer and of course some default linters. Checks and balances

Google CEO Pushes 'Vibe Coding' – But Real Developers Know It's Not Magic

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