Vibe coding is making waves. It is a term put in circulation by Andrej Karpathy in February 2025 on a post on X. It is a new type of coding where you follow the vibes, embrace exponentials and forget that the code even exists. The instructions are given to AI tool which does the coding for you.
The tools utilized for vibe coding are ChatGPT, Cursor, Replit and Bolt. These are popular. There are others such as Claude, Copilot, Lovable and Windsurf. Google too launched Firebase Studio in early April 2025. It is a cloud-based AI tool that builds apps simply using your prompts.
These tools assist engineers in coding. The workload that needed 4-5 engineers is now being handled by 1-2 at the most. This has improved efficiency. It affects fresher hiring in engineering. It could spell a death knell for coding jobs. IT sector is already under stress. The openings are shrinking. In India the enrolment for engineering courses is dropping by a substantial percentage. Partly, it could be attributed to the rise of AI. Developers will have to pick up additional skills.
AI understands 16-17 legacy codebases being used to interact with each other. Its results are not optimal. It reduces the workload. We still need senior engineers to make architectural decisions, to think beyond scale and to take ownership of the modules.
Learning programming is essential. The AI tools are not robust or built for full, production-level products.
In future, we may have better versions of vibe coding.
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