Vibe Coding: Superpower for Prototyping, Liability in Production
The promise is real. So are the risks nobody is talking about. Something significant is happening in how software gets built. Describe what you want in plain language, and an AI writes the code. No syntax to memorise, no framework to learn, no development team required. Andrej Karpathy named it “vibe coding” in early 2025; Collins English Dictionary named it Word of the Year. The numbers tell the story: AI now generates ~41% of all code globally (Stack Overflow + independent research). 25% of Y Combinator Winter 2025 startups have codebases that are 95%+ AI-generated. 63% of people using these tools are not professional software engineers (State of Vibe Coding 2025). That democratisation is genuinely valuable - founders, analysts, and domain experts can now build tools for their own workflows without waiting on a dev team. But as with anything that moves this fast, the risks are quietly accumulating. ...