AI (more precisely LLMs) have been developing very rapidly lately, and it is hard to avoid them in everyday life - they have been integrated into Google search, our email, browser, mobile phone, social media, and they come across whether we like it or not. For some time now, it has also been said that they will replace programmers, and the term vibe coding has also appeared, which refers to developers only providing the vibe, and the AI writing the code.
I have been using it since the beginning (when I got the beta Copilot, quite early on), mainly as a smarter code completion tool, and recently I have occasionally asked it about topics that I rarely need to deal with and do not remember the details exactly, but I have never generated complete programs or larger code snippets with it. Until around the beginning of this year, I considered vibe coding mainly as a game, and most of the stories I came across on social media were more funny or interesting than serious - for example, someone created a complete service with AI assistance without any programming knowledge, just by “vibing”, and is already making money with it, then a few days later reported that their service was hacked and they had no idea what to do since they had clients, where could they get help, …
Then around the beginning of this year, some professionals whose opinions I value (e.g. Armin Ronacher) also spoke positively about the topic, and credible stories also appeared on Reddit, so at the end of spring I decided to embark on an experiment and vibe code a simpler web application. I leave everything possible to AI agents, and only touch the code if absolutely necessary.
TL;DR: I was skeptical at first, but now I have a new friend, Claude, who develops my live-tracker project in the evenings while we tinker in the garden or during long boring meetings.