10 professional developers on the true promise and peril of vibe coding
Summary
It was not intended for a newbie who wants to type a two-sentence prompt and make a couple of million dollars off the app that results from that mere moment of mental mathematics. While it enables newcomers to build applications without traditional programming experience, it also highlights a crucial reality: without fundamental software development knowledge, security and performance suffer." Campbell said, "Vibe coding accelerates development and removes the need for deep technical knowledge of tools or techniques, but at the cost of a near-total lack of system understanding. But for now, "Vibe coding today excels at creating web toys -- personal tools with a narrow focus and minimal security concerns -- without the stakes and risks of deploying them in a production environment." But I would recommend keeping your bullcrap detector on full power, because marketing folks are seizing on the stickiness of the term to claim that newbies can do no-code projects with alacrity.