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Oliver Stafurik
Mar 21, 2025
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If you’ve opened twitter at least once in the last 2 months you would have already heard about vibe coding.

Vibe coding is where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. LLMs (especially Cursor) make this possible.

I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while.

~ Andrej Karpathy (arguably the most famous Slovak person after me).

It must be worth our attention if one of the key people in developing the entirety of AI plays around with this approach.


It comes with many pros/cons that need addressing.

  • It excels when creating something from scratch.
    From scratch + having a rough vision of a similar product in mind speeds up the process exponentially. Feed him a product you want to re-create step by step, you will get a competitor’s product/feature done very quickly. After that you can address the limitations it might have and perfect it.

  • Not everyone is familiar with code environment.
    Coding is getting popular by the year, however most people are not familiar with debugging/correctly formatted prompts. This gives experienced developers competitive edge and saves time on finishing vibe-coded products.

  • Shifts the entirety of software engineering.
    Most of the vibe code works, even though it’s spaghetti code. The larger the codebase gets, the more..

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