Can A.I. Already Do Your Job?

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

“Vibecoding,” or using artificial-intelligence tools such as Claude Code to generate code for websites or apps, is the newest A.I. trend, and it could transform the software-development industry. Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The New York Times, takes us inside the process.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Kittrowaf.
0:04.3	This is the Daily.
0:10.6	On Monday, we looked at the growing pushback against sprawling AI data centers in communities across America.
0:18.6	Today, my colleague Kevin Ruse takes us inside one of the most
0:22.7	transformative technologies
0:24.3	that infrastructure is enabling.
0:27.5	A new way of programming
0:28.9	that may be the biggest development
0:30.9	in artificial intelligence
0:32.3	since the launch of ChatGPT.
0:45.6	The launch of chat GPT. It's Wednesday, February 18th.
1:03.4	Okay, so the other day I slacked you, Kevin Ruse, my colleague, my friend, the host of the New York Times Tech podcast, Hard Fork.
1:10.6	And I asked you, what is vibe coding? Because this is a thing I had been hearing about, and I had no idea what it was. And you
1:11.4	answered me roughly in the tone that one might use with their very elderly grandmother,
1:17.0	I think. Fair to say? Well, I am not agist. I think people have lots of different levels of
1:25.5	comfort with technology. I think my tone of voice was
1:28.0	directed at you specifically, Natalie, because I know that you are younger than me, and so you have
1:33.2	no excuse to be this confused by technology. Yeah, okay, fair enough. So since then, I did my own
1:40.9	research as any young person would do, And I've come to the understanding that vibe
1:48.3	coding is, in fact, very important. It appears to be using AI in a way that is truly revolutionary.
1:56.9	And I do think that I cannot possibly be the only one who has not caught up to this.
2:03.3	And so I want to ask you to just start by laying out the basics for those of us who aren't there yet.
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