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The perfect background music for Vibecoding...

Michael Ramich on June 08, 2026

While vibecoding, you sometimes need some background music. But music can also be a massive distraction. A summary of my journey in finding the per...
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Nazar Boyko

You backed into something real here! Strategy-game scores are written to loop forever and deliberately avoid a climax, because a soundtrack that peaks would yank your attention every few minutes. Same reason film scores make terrible work music and game scores make great ones: one's built to spike emotion, the other to hold a flat, alert mood for hours. If you want more in that vein, the Factorio and Civilization ambient tracks scratch the exact same itch. 😇😊

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Michael Ramich Google Developer Group

You hit the nail on the head – This! Oh Civilization and Factorio are amazing too. Just also rediscovered Witcher 3, Kingdom Come Deliverance and Elder Scrolls. ⚜️

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Alex Shev

Funny but true. The environment affects the work more than people admit. For AI-assisted coding, anything that keeps you in review mode instead of passive acceptance mode helps.

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Michael Ramich Google Developer Group • Edited

Yes, absolutely! And because Vibecoding (done right) is more architecture and management work, which requites very-long-horizon planning and very-very-long-context managing, imo you need something that keeps you on the edge but doesn't take away the focus.

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Alex Shev

Yes, that's a good way to put it. The music has to keep a bit of forward pressure without stealing the planner's working memory.

For agent work I care less about "relaxing" and more about stable energy over a long context window.

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Ha ha thanks

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avilash behera

techno is my fav

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Michael Ramich Google Developer Group

Techno is nice too, but can't do architecture or deep-thinking with it. 🫠

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Isabella

Hah this was such a good read. I personally play alpha waves in the background. Not that I think that's compulsory, but just for the vibes

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Michael Ramich Google Developer Group

Thanks! Yea, Alpha Waves can work, but I feel like music keeps me more alert 😅 if you want to have deep-dive you could also look at something like 7hz, in particular: youtube.com/watch?v=X7iO_tSNwCA
Don't mind the weird title and description of it, nothing special, but it helps to get into a deep state of consciousness imo.

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Graiden Chimbala

I love that one

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Michael Ramich Google Developer Group

Thanks :)

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carcinocron

Red Alert (1&2) have excellent sound tracks for programming.

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Michael Ramich Google Developer Group

That's true too! :)