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I have already vibe-coded countless number of scripts and two side projects that were on my "list" for years, these projects would have never seen the light of day if not for Cursor. That's the whole point.
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Wasn't this 12 months ago?
It was two months ago, and the prediction was 90% of code written by AI in 3-6 months, and ~100% in 12 months. Maybe he will be right but in a cursed monkey's paw sense where the amount of high quality code stays about the same, but that becomes a rounding error compared to the amount of barely functional spaghetti code being churned out by agents. Similarly ~100% of written word will probably be penned by LLMs soon…
It has really good use cases, I have been vibe coding some zsh scripts to automate some processes and it’s been amazing. No I don’t intend to actually learn zsh.
I'm sure it will go down in history as some sort of intentional movement, and then someone will occasionally point out "did you know that originally this idea was never meant to be used for serious work, Andrej literally said it was only okay for throwaway weekend projects." Big not-always-good things[1] started this way — by misinterpreting something.
Of course, it's possible that in the future code written this way will actually be maintainable, performant, and secure enough that you could start trusting it, and this will morph into a legit way of writing software, but right now the hype is way ahead of what Andrej meant when he coined the term.
[1]: Examples come to mind: Agile, Scrum, Javascript (2 week project originally), there're definitely more examples.
I have already vibe-coded countless number of scripts and two side projects that were on my "list" for years, these projects would have never seen the light of day if not for Cursor. That's the whole point.
The fact that they could be "vibe coded" means that they (or something similar) probably already existed, but you just didn't know they did.
Vibe Coding is the new offshoring - the difference is that basically anyone can do it.
Having inherited a couple of hastily written but dirt cheap offshored codebases to fix, I would rather vibe code than try to untangle those garbage code bases.
Vibe coding is terrible compared to the thoughtful output of a seasoned dev, but is significantly cheaper, faster and easier to iterate on than the lowest bidder offshored. Undoubtedly most offshore coders will just vibe code anyway, so in the near term I suspect LLMs will impact these “programmers” the most.
I would guess that for every app that was vibe coded and made $80k in revenue, there are thousands of attempts that went off a cliff or into a wall, generating $0 revenue and wasting a human’s time. So it’s just survivorship bias. Sure, it’s possible to make something useful, but you will probably fail. I’m using AI to increase my productivity, but whenever I’ve vibe coded (not intentionally, just by getting caught u…
But if you don't review the code you're asking for hurt. It has literally written stuff like "if pending changes > 20, delete all", etc.
I have already vibe-coded countless number of scripts and two side projects that were on my "list" for years, these projects would have never seen the light of day if not for Cursor. That's the whole point.
Is it. For small scripts like these you can get far with basic search and sources like docs/github/SO. Maybe cursor is more “fun”, “engaging”, and the like, but it’s not like it was a difficult job before.