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Title: Will 'Vibe Coding' Transform Programming?

Link: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/06/0...

A 21-year-old's startup got a $500,000 investment from Y Combinator - after
building their web site and prototype mostly with "vibe coding". NPR explores
vibe coding with Tom Blomfield, a Y Combinator group partner: "It really
caught on, this idea that people are no longer checking line by line the code
that AI is producing, but just kind of telling it what to do and accepting
the responses in a very trusting way," Blomfield said. And so Blomfield, who
knows how to code, also tried his hand at vibe coding - both to rejig his
blog and to create from scratch a website called Recipe Ninja. It has a
library of recipes, and cooks can talk to it, asking the AI-driven site to
concoct new recipes for them. "It's probably like 30,000 lines of code. That
would have taken me, I don't know, maybe a year to build," he said. "It
wasn't overnight, but I probably spent 100 hours on that." Blomfield said he
expects AI coding to radically change the software industry. "Instead of
having coding assistance, we're going to have actual AI coders and then an AI
project manager, an AI designer and, over time, an AI manager of all of this.
And we're going to have swarms of these things," he said. Where people fit
into this, he said, "is the question we're all grappling with." In 2021,
Blomfield said in a podcast that would-be start-up founders should, first and
foremost, learn to code. Today, he's not sure he'd give that advice because
he thinks coders and software engineers could eventually be out of a job.
"Coders feel like they are tending, kind of, organic gardens by hand," he
said. "But we are producing these superhuman agents that are going to be as
good as the best coders in the world, like very, very soon." The article
includes an alternate opinion from Adam Resnick, a research manager at tech
consultancy IDC. "The vast majority of developers are using AI tools in some
way. And what we also see is that a reasonably high percentage of the code
output from those tools needs further curation by people, by experienced
people." NPR ends their article by noting that this further curation is "a
job that AI can't do, he said. At least not yet."

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