Vibe Coding is fun — and powerful.
Andrej Karpathy's words are etched into tech history: "fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists."
It has rightfully taken the coding world by storm. However, I see another part of his proposal being lost: "It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing." What’s often lost is that Karpathy was describing fast experiments — not production code.
Vibe Coding is supposed to be fun — not for products.
Vibing in prompts is just having a conversation. We can't prompt our way to a product with AI, just like we can't talk our way to a product as humans. Without structure, projects stall in half-working prototypes or require constant re-prompting just to stay coherent.
I've been reaching out to the community, talking to as many people as I can, and what I see happening isn't just vibing — it's leading. Developers are no longer just experimenting — they’re building serious systems with AI at the core. I see prompts that are full PRDs. I see markdowns that read like Jira roadmaps.
It needs a project plan — and now, with large-context models, we can actually give it to them. There's incredible work happening in this space that’s being masked by the 'Vibe Coding' label.
AI-assisted programming. AI-paired programming. Whatever you call it — for many of us, that was the first thing we asked LLMs to do when they became available. For me, the advances in reasoning — as incredible as they are — are not the biggest game changer of the past year.
It's the integration into our IDEs and terminals.
AI can now run tests, read results, and correct code. That’s not an assistant — that's a dev engineer.
And just like any dev engineer, human or AI, it needs a shared language, workflow, and development stack to collaborate effectively.
I’ve seen incredible work from developers of all kinds — but too often, it gets dismissed as just ‘vibe coding.’
Let’s stop calling it a fad and start recognizing it as the foundation for how we’ll build software with AI from here on out.
— Fred Terzi
GitHub: ReqText
Git-native CLI for structured AI collaboration
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