Vibe coding: A threat to software engineers?

“Vibe coding” is the latest buzzword in the arena of artificial intelligence (AI), describing a development in generative AI that some believe makes programming as simple as a texting a friend.

In a post on X in February, OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy, who coined the term, said, “There’s a new kind of coding I call ‘vibe coding’, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.”

According to the news agency AFP, vibe coding refers to the process of instantly generating code using generative AI…