887: Vibe Coding Is a Problem
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Wes Bos
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🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Is Vibe Coding the future of software development or just a fun way to experiment? Scott and Wes talk about coding with AI, the risks of ignoring the details, and the cool (and sometimes cursed) projects they’ve Vibe Coded.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:31 “Personal Software”.
- 01:30 What exactly is Vibe Coding.
- 02:46 The challenges of coding with AI.
- 04:49 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
- 05:39 Vibe coding quality concerns.
- 07:25 Vibe Coding as a learning tool.
- 10:11 Things we’ve Vibe Coded.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Syntax. Today we're talking about vibe coding. Now, before you shut it off, |
| 0:06.0 | because you're sick of the obnoxiousness of vibe coding. Let me give it to you straight about |
| 0:11.3 | what we're trying to do. We're going to be talking about like just building random stuff |
| 0:16.1 | with AI that might be kind of good, but you don't necessarily care. We're going to talk |
| 0:22.8 | about what it is and whether or not we should be doing this and some examples of stuff we have |
| 0:29.8 | vibe coded. I don't know. The other words, people have been using this is like, what, |
| 0:35.6 | like personal software kind of fits into this, you know, or throwaway software I've been using this as like what like personal software kind of fits into this you know |
| 0:38.9 | or throw away software i've been calling it is i've built quite a few things recently where i just need it |
| 0:45.6 | very quickly once it served its purpose it it gets thrown away yeah so it's funny that you say that |
| 0:53.1 | personal i do think personal software is connected for a lot of people. And I think personal software might be more connected for, I would say, more responsible developers than it is for other people. And that's the best way to say that because what I found with vibe coding is that specifically it's a lot |
| 1:14.8 | of inexperienced people doing it because they are becoming productive with it, but they |
| 1:23.4 | cannot be that productive without it because they don't have the knowledge base. That's an assumption, but that's my experience, what I'm seeing on socials. |
| 1:30.9 | So vibe coding, if you've never heard of this term, you're not on social media, you haven't |
| 1:36.1 | seen people talk about it, what the heck is it? |
| 1:38.5 | It's basically coding entirely using prompts, things like cursor or clude code, these types of systems that are |
| 1:45.8 | agenic, that do a lot for you, that are adding multiple files, connecting things, running |
| 1:50.8 | projects. |
| 1:52.2 | And the idea with vibe coding mostly is that you as the developer are not getting really deep |
| 1:58.8 | into the code. |
| 1:59.7 | You're not really paying attention to the |
| 2:01.7 | close details. You're mostly just running it, seeing if it works, seeing how it works, |
| 2:07.4 | prompting again, tweaking, prompting again, prompting again, just on repeat until the thing |
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