Engineers in Silicon Valley have been raving about Anthropic’s AI coding tool, Claude Code, for months. But recently, the buzz feels as if it’s reached a fever pitch. Earlier this week, I sat down ...

Not only are we less clear about who is developing software, but we are also less confident about our total inventory of ...

A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to use Google's Jules AI Agent to scan through the entire code repository of one of my projects and add a new feature. The AI took about 10 minutes. All ...

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Vibe coding turns software development into a conversation. You focus on the idea, and the AI model handles most of the implementation. Barbara is a tech writer specializing in AI and emerging ...

Does vibe coding risk destroying the Open Source ecosystem? According to a pre-print paper by a number of high-profile researchers, this might indeed be the case based on observed patterns and some ...

Coding is no longer just about writing. It’s about orchestrating. Why Vibe Coding, And Why Now? In early 2025, AI researcher Andrej Karpathy introduced the term vibe coding to describe something many ...

Vibe coding is the next evolutionary step in how generative AI is impacting coding and the software development lifecycle. Vibe coding, or AI-assisted development, lets a developer or less technical ...

Vibe coding is everywhere, and it’s already drastically changing the tech industry, shaping everything from how software gets made to who gets hired. In July, WIRED's Lauren Goode went on a journey to ...

Vibe coding enables one to program in plain English. However, it means speed over code review and rigor. Code quality may be inconsistent. Vibe coding has become the new must-do in technology shops.

AI coding agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google can now work on software projects for hours at a time, writing complete apps, running tests, and fixing bugs with human supervision. But these tools ...