Get the latest tech news

“Vibe Coding” vs. Reality


Reviewing the capabilities and limitations of LLM agents in software development and their impact on skilled and less skilled developers.

Published Mar 19, 2025 - 11 min read - Text Only There's a trend on social media where many repeat Andrej Karpathy's words( archived): "give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists." Moon (an in-game route between story locations) making no effective progress towards achieving its next goal because by the time it could second guess itself, its context window is no longer fit to continue. While increasing the length of the context window will improve some immediate experiences, this is a problem of scale that needs a different solution for agents to be more effective and, perhaps, move "Vibe Coding" closer to reality.

Get the Android app

Or read this on Hacker News

Read more on:

Photo of Reality

Reality

Photo of Vibe Coding

Vibe Coding

Related news:

News photo

How Trump Is Reshaping Reality By Hiding Data

News photo

AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality

News photo

This is where the rich folks need to see they lost touch with reality. People have less money to spend. Everything is more expensive. They whine that people aren't upgrading their phones as fast.