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Will the future of software development run on vibes?
Accepting AI-written code without understanding how it works is growing in popularity.
But questions remain about whether the approach can reliably produce code suitable for real-world applications, even as tools like Cursor Composer, GitHub Copilot, and Replit Agent make the process increasingly accessible to non-programmers. Microsoft's Peter Yang recently demonstrated vibe coding in an X thread by building a simple 3D first-person shooter zombie game through conversational prompts fed into Cursor and Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Having a vibe-based code genie can come in handy in unexpected places: Last year, I asked Anthropic's Claude write a Microsoft Q-BASIC program in MS-DOS that decompressed 200 ZIP files into custom directories, saving me many hours of manual typing work.
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