Google CEO says ‘vibe coding’ made software development ‘so much more enjoyable’

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-says-vibe-coding-has-made-software-development-so-much-more-enjoyable-10393752/

by ashishgupta2209 • 8 months ago

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codingdave• 8 months ago

Biz leaders who are seeking to profit off AI sure do have a positive view of AI.

cluckindan• 8 months ago

Finally, the CEO can feel like they’re producing something of value.

jerlam• 8 months ago

I'm not excited to review the CEO's AI-written PR.

chasing0entropy• 8 months ago

Reading this just makes me think of yesterday's post - vibe code in turbo mode, Gemini Antigravty wipes the entire storage drive partition because it missed a quotation in function code it wrote and ran without checking.

Edit: for those who don't frequent HN or reddit every day: https://old.reddit.com/r/google_antigravity/comments/1p82or6...

bryanrasmussen• 8 months ago

it used to be you needed to be an idiotic noob to do that to your company but now you can automate it and do it at scale, idiotic noobs are expensive and it costs a lot to hire enough to wreck everything but vibe coding is cheap and inexpensive to bring awesome self-destructive power!

Chance-Device3• 8 months ago

It does though. That’s a separate issue from the inevitable layoffs and any bugs introduced along the way, but he’s not wrong.

WhyOhWhyQ• 8 months ago

It depends on how you use it. I was running 15 agents at once, 12 hours a day for a month straight because it was more optimal to add more, and that wasn't very enjoyable. Now I'm back to writing code the enjoyable way, with minor LLM assistance here and there.

bluefirebrand4• 8 months ago

Speak for yourself. I think he's extremely wrong

I think if all you care about is the outcome then sure, you might enjoy AI coding more

If you enjoy the problem solving process (and care about quality) then doing it by hand is way, way more enjoyable

Chance-Device3• 8 months ago

If you don’t care about outcome then all you’re doing is playing a video game.

aleph_minus_one• 8 months ago

This links to

https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-techn...

dang, please replace the link.

bluefirebrand4• 8 months ago

You know there are lots of things that make software development more enjoyable

Having a private office instead of an open floor plan for instance

Or not working in the JIRA two week sprint format

Or not having to work with offshore teams that push the burden of quality control onto you

My point is I bet that the Google CEO (and basically every other software CEO) doesn't actually care if software development is enjoyable or not

jimnotgym• 8 months ago

Yes it helps you write all the boiler plate code to do straightforward repetetive things. What would be even better would be simple code to do simple things

raldi• 8 months ago

My wife noticed that I don't mind being interrupted when programming anymore; between the less-intense level of concentration required now and the always-present transcript, it's not like a collapsing mental house of cards to look up for a few minutes and talk about something else.

thepasswordapp3• 8 months ago

Been "vibe coding" for 8 months building thepassword.app - AI browser automation that changes passwords across websites.

The enjoyment factor is real. The iteration speed with Claude Code is insane. But the model's suggestions still need guardrails.

For security-focused apps especially, you can't just accept what the LLM generates. We spent weeks ensuring passwords never touch the LLM context - that's not something a vibe-coded solution catches by default.

The productivity gains are real, but so is the need for human oversight on the security-critical parts.

stogot• 8 months ago

How do you ensure this? That pattern could be a useful feature in hundreds of apps being built by other developers if you turn it into a library

thepasswordapp3• 8 months ago

Good question - and yes, this should probably be a library.

The core approach: browser-use's Agent class accepts a `credentials` parameter that gets passed to custom action functions but never included in the LLM prompt. So when the agent needs to fill a password field, it calls a custom `enter_password()` function that receives the credential via this secure channel rather than having it in the visible task context.

We forked browser-use to add this (github.com/anthropics/browser-use doesn't have it upstream yet). The modification is in `agent/service.py` - adding `credentials` to the Agent constructor and threading it through to the tool registry.

Key parts: 1. Passwords passed via `sensitive_data` dict 2. Custom action functions receive credentials as parameters 3. LLM only sees "call enter_password()" not the actual value 4. Redaction at logging layer as defense-in-depth

Would be happy to clean this up into a standalone pattern/PR. The trickiest part is that it requires changes to the core Agent class, not just custom actions on top.

000ooo0002• 8 months ago

There is no way I would provide the password I use on multiple sites to some random app, and there's absolutely no way I'd do that if I had any inkling it was vibe coded.

thepasswordapp3• 8 months ago

Fair skepticism - I'd be suspicious too.

Two clarifications:

1. We don't ask for your current passwords. The app imports your CSV from your existing password manager (1Password, Bitwarden, etc.), which you already trust with your credentials. We automate the change process - you provide the new passwords you want.

2. Zero passwords leave your machine. The app runs locally. Browser automation happens in a local Playwright instance. The AI (GPT-5-mini via OpenRouter) only sees page structure, never credential values. Passwords are passed to forms via a separate injection mechanism that's invisible to the LLM context.

The "vibe coding" comment was about development speed with AI assistants, not about skipping security review. We spent weeks specifically on credential isolation architecture - making sure passwords can't leak to logs, LLM prompts, or network requests. That's the opposite of careless.

Code's not open source yet, but we're working toward that for exactly the reasons you describe - trust requires verification.

ChrisArchitect• 8 months ago

Source: https://blog.google/technology/ai/sundar-pichai-ai-release-n... (video: https://youtu.be/iFqDyWFuw1c)

AlexeyBrin• 8 months ago

How many hours per day is Google CEO "enjoying" the pleasures of (vibe) coding ?

LikeBeans• 8 months ago

No buddy, you're replacing the doer engineers that built your company and made you rich with some form of automation.

Google CEO says ‘vibe coding’ made software development ‘so much more enjoyable’

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