“We strongly believe that in the coming years, writing code manually won't be a thing. What will be left is the fun stuff”: Inside the new wave of AI tools turning prompts into plugins

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The first that most of us heard of vibe coding was when Rick Rubin called it the “punk rock of software.”

For those of you not up on your punk software, vibe coding is a cutting-edge technique that utilizes an AI assistant like Claude or ChatGPT to develop software applications through prompts. Or, according to IBM, “a fresh take in coding where users express their intention using plain speech and the AI transforms that thinking into executable code.”