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#vibecoding

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"Apple Inc. is teaming up with startup Anthropic PBC on a new “vibe-coding” software platform that will use artificial intelligence to write, edit and test code on behalf of programmers.

The system is a new version of Xcode, Apple’s programming software, that will integrate Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Apple will roll out the software internally and hasn’t yet decided whether to launch it publicly, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the initiative hasn’t been announced.

The work shows how Apple is using AI to improve its internal workflow, aiming to speed up and modernize product development. The approach is similar to one used by companies such as Windsurf and Cursor maker Anysphere, which offer advanced AI coding assistants popular with software developers."

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

"I think there is a real need for a book on actual vibe coding: helping people who are not software developers—and who don’t want to become developers—learn how to use vibe coding techniques safely, effectively and responsibly to solve their problems.

This is a rich, deep topic! Most of the population of the world are never going to learn to code, but thanks to vibe coding tools those people now have a path to building custom software.

Everyone deserves the right to automate tedious things in their lives with a computer. They shouldn’t have to learn programming in order to do that. That is who vibe coding is for. It’s not for people who are software engineers already!

There are so many questions to be answered here. What kind of projects can be built in this way? How can you avoid the traps around security, privacy, reliability and a risk of over-spending? How can you navigate the jagged frontier of things that can be achieved in this way versus things that are completely impossible?

A book for people like that could be a genuine bestseller! But because three authors and the staff of two publishers didn’t read to the end of the tweet we now need to find a new buzzy term for that, despite having the perfect term for it already."

simonwillison.net/2025/May/1/n

Simon Willison’s WeblogTwo publishers and three authors fail to understand what “vibe coding” meansVibe coding does not mean “using AI tools to help write code”. It means “generating code with AI without caring about the code that is produced”. See Not all AI-assisted …

Why i wont be vibe coding anymore | Varun Raghu

「 as i was lying in bed on a sleepless night. i realized i hadn’t learnt a new concept in weeks. i had built a few useful apps with ai, but a nagging question kept me awake - what was the point of it all if i didn’t learn a thing? 」

varunraghu.com/why-i-wont-be-v

Varun Raghuwhy i wont be vibe coding anymorei’m breaking up with vibe coding. here’s why. when i first started learning to code, i built apps/websites that would be considered poor in the tradition...

😋 AI is Making Developers Dumb

「 Over time, I started to forget basic foundational elements of the languages I worked with. I started to forget parts of the syntax, how basic statements are used. It’s pretty embarrassing to look back and think about how I was eroding the knowledge I had gathered just because I wanted a short term speed increase 」

eli.cx/blog/ai-is-making-devel

eli.cxAI is Making Developers DumbLLMs are making software engineers dumber.

I think I'm hitting the limits on the practical usefulness of #chatGPT for my project. It's really cool that it can mostly understand what I'm trying to do, but it bullshits formulas and algorithms sometimes. Like, if I have to write out the explicit formulas and then all it does is solve the quadratics and not even put it back in the code, it's not saving me any time. I can solve quadratics myself, and I wasted a lot of time deciphering the nonsense solution it gave when I didn't explicitly tell exactly how to do it. I do enjoy talking to it though because the people around me understand far less of what I say than this bot, and that's lonely. It probably doesn't hurt that it's sycophantic, constantly telling me my ideas are fascinating and how clever and right I am.

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@jamesb This is the picture I had in my head the first few times I read about #vibecoding before understanding its currently most widespread meaning.

Wouldn’t be surprised if the more erotic meaning of the term will soon be related to actual coding orgasms

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@jimbob

Agree. Your comment about this creating markets just to sell AI is spot on. Also, there's a not so small con going on with the unskilled middle-men (or women) promoting the deskilling just to take a cut for themselves

If you think about something like "vibe surgery" for a minute you quickly walk a mile from this.