"Finally, the most accessible option is “no-code” products like Replit and Lovable, which live in the web browser and are optimized for non-engineers. You can brainstorm a quick prompt like, “Make me a website to display the new albums I listen to each month,” and within minutes, get a functioning website and URL.
This approach has been dubbed “vibe coding” by Andrej Karpathy, an AI researcher who was on the founding team of OpenAI and led AI at Tesla. AI coding programs “are getting too good. I barely even touch the keyboard,” he wrote on X.
There has been a lot of speculation about how AI coding will help companies to create software in a leaner, faster way—and how it could threaten jobs for junior engineers. In April, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that up to 30% of code at Microsoft was already written by AI. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects AI to code at the level of a “midlevel engineer” by the end of the year.
But the most important effect of inexpensive AI coding tools may be to bring software development to the masses, no computer science degree or billion-dollar revenue plan required. To borrow an analogy from the author and programmer Robin Sloan, AI might enable more people to program like a “home cook”—having fun making apps for their own household and community—instead of relying on fast-food operations that churn out generic apps at industrial scale."
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/your-next-favorite-app-the-one-you-make-yourself-a6a84f5f
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