Vibe Coding Is The Future

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There was a time when building an app meant hours of writing boilerplate, reading docs, and debugging your way through Stack Overflow. But today, with AI copilots, increasingly smart IDEs, and frameworks doing the heavy lifting, coding is starting to feel different. It’s less about syntax and architecture — and more about flow. You sketch an idea, say what you want, and something usable just appears. The gap between intention and execution is shrinking fast.

Andrej Karpathy recently gave this emerging pattern a name:

There’s a new kind of coding I call “vibe coding”, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists… I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.

That’s vibe coding. It’s fast. It’s intuitive. It’s changing who can build software — and how they do it. But it doesn’t mean technical skill is obsolete. In fact, the role of the technical person is evolving: less time spent fighting with syntax, more time architecting, integrating, and scaling. We’re entering a new paradigm of programming — one that’s reshaping the boundaries of what it means to be a developer. Coding is becoming cheaper, faster, and more accessible — and that unlocks new creative opportunities, while also exposing new bottlenecks.

The Evolution of Software Development

Software development has always moved in waves — each one abstracting more complexity and expanding access. We started with low-level languages, where building even a simple app required deep expertise. Then came high-level languages, frameworks, and open source libraries that let developers build faster by reusing existing work. The rise of frontend frameworks, backend-as-a-service platforms, and low-code tools pushed things even further, letting us think in components and APIs instead of raw logic and infrastructure. Every shift brought us closer to faster iteration and more creative freedom.

To illustrate how far we’ve come, here’s a simple example: a program that calculates the sum of the cubes of positive numbers. In the past, even this kind of logic could be verbose and hard to reason about. Take a look at the same program written in Fortran vs. Python:

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