Vibe coding

Vibe coding is building software by describing what you want in natural language and iterating on what the AI produces, instead of typing out every line yourself. You express intent - 'a landing page with an email signup that stores addresses in Supabase' - and the agent writes the code, which you then refine through conversation. The term caught on in 2024 and 2025 as agentic tools like Claude Code made it genuinely practical to go from an idea to a running app in an afternoon rather than a week.

What makes vibe coding work is that the loop is fast and forgiving. You do not need to hold the entire implementation in your head before you start; you start, see something running, and steer from there. That lowers the barrier to building dramatically - people who could never have hand-written a full stack app can now ship one, because the skill shifts from memorizing syntax to clearly describing outcomes and recognizing when the result is right. This is why vibe coding has become the on-ramp for a whole new wave of builders.

The catch is that 'I don't read the code' is where vibe coding goes wrong. The builders who do it well still review what the AI produces - they read the diffs, they run the tests, they sanity-check the parts that touch money, auth, and data - because small misunderstandings compound into real bugs if no one is watching. Done with that discipline, vibe coding is not a toy; it is a legitimate, fast way to ship. The goal is to move fast and keep enough judgment in the loop to catch mistakes before they ship.