vibe coding
14 statements across 13 episodes · 4 bullish · 7 bearish · 13 people on the record · first statement May 1, 2025 by Michael Truell · across every show →
Everything said about vibe coding, oldest first
May 1, 2025 negative
Truell: 'Vibe coding' breaks down when developers cannot understand scaling codebases
“By not understanding the details under the hood right now, you then very quickly get to a place where you're kind of limited. At a certain point where you create something that's big enough that you can't change.”
Jul 6, 2025
Shlomo: Intermediate specification steps diminish the 'aha moment' in vibe coding
“I think one of the key to the aha moment in the vibe coding world, or at least in base 44 is like, Holy shit. Like it actually understood me and you see the app. And if you have like a stage in the middle, it makes a surprise, like slightly less surprising. An…”
Jul 13, 2025
Knapp: Pre-planning before vibe coding yields far better products than chat co-designing
“If you end up vibe coding this prototype, but you start off with a very clear plan about this is what the thing needs to look at, look like rather than going immediately into a conversational mode where you're sort of co-designing with the LLM and going back a…”
Jul 31, 2025 bearish
Taylor: Maintenance, not prototype generation, is the true bottleneck in software
“I'm super excited about vibe coding, but I don't know, like generating a prototype has been the limiting factor in software ever. It's actually like building increasingly complex systems and actually changing them with agility. You know, if you look at the fam…”
Aug 31, 2025 negative
Liu: Generating full business apps from code causes bugs and context collapse
“And yet if you have an agent that has to generate every single bit of that app from scratch from code, it's going to be very unreliable. There's going to be bugs. There's going to be data and security issues. And then you're also going to have a context collap…”
Dec 7, 2025 bearish
Dec 18, 2025 positive
A dedicated vibe coder accelerates team velocity as much as an engineer
“Once you get into vibe coding and you see it's Value within your organization, leaning into somebody like that just accelerates your velocity because it is like an engineer on your team. It's just, they're not, to me, he's part technical, but they can be non-t…”
Dec 18, 2025 positive
Jan 15, 2026 bearish
Jan 18, 2026 neutral
Feb 8, 2026 positive
AI has solved execution, leaving design and taste as the differentiators
“Once you figure out that we solved for the how, which is AI assistant or rapid engineering, call it whatever you want. You can call it vibe coding if you want to, but, like, we solved for that. Now we gotta solve for everything else, and everything else is wha…”
Mar 29, 2026 positive
Apr 2, 2026 negative
Willison: Vibe coding without reviewing code is irresponsible for multi-user software
“If you're vibe coding something for yourself, where the only person who gets hurt, if it has bugs, is you go wild. That's completely fine. The moment you did your vibe coding code for other people to use where your bugs might actually harm somebody else. That'…”
May 2, 2026 negative
Schoening: Software Quality Has Not Improved In Last 12 Months
“I do have a general sort of maybe issue with vibe coding in the sense of, I don't feel like the quality of software has increased all that much in the last 12 months. I think the, maybe the amount of software has, but it's very, very hard to find software that…”