I don't even know what people mean by vibe coding ... I see it mentioned but it is always like something someone says so they can get their name in a news article.
At least someone is talking some sense!
> Startups would struggle to attract investors without developers building complex systems, he said
As long as the startups can get traction, grow quickly and/or generate money, it doesn't matter if they used AI to build it. That might attract investors even more... a super lean company that can go to market faster and gain a lot of ground, before needing big bucks for hiring a heavier development team... that sounds pretty good
Oh? Is that why Microsoft (Github's owner) is spending $80B on AI this fiscal year?
I generally found with vibe coding I can only get so far in general before it mires in some local minimum and I need to take over and substantially drive development. I find it profoundly useful for the initial phase of work which in many ways is good. I find the initial decisions to often bog me down and it just runs through a lot of menial design decisions that ultimately don’t matter as much as I like to think at the beginning. Generally SoTA coding LLMs tend to be pretty well versed in minutia of libraries and tooling as well. It feels a lot like working with a 4 years experience engineer - they know a lot about the tools they know, and can get things to a point, but they hit a wall that only experience can surmount. Once things get complex enough they bounce around on the edges of the problem and need a more senior engineer to lead.