Vibe Coding — the revolution dividing developers into two camps

What is vibe coding?

The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy (former director of AI at Tesla and co-founder of OpenAI) in early 2025. The concept is simple: instead of writing code line by line, you describe what you want to an AI and it generates the code for you. You guide, review and approve.

What does vibe coding look like in practice?

A real example. Instead of writing by hand:

const fetchUserData = async (userId) => {
  try {
    const response = await fetch(`/api/users/${userId}`);
    if (!response.ok) throw new Error('Failed to fetch');
    return await response.json();
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Error:', error);
    throw error;
  }
};

You tell the AI: "Write a function that fetches user data by ID from an API, handles errors properly and is async" — and you get exactly the code above.

With vibe coding you go further: you describe entire features, not just individual functions. "Build me a CRM with users, tasks and a dashboard" — and the AI scaffolds the whole application.

When does vibe coding work brilliantly?

When is vibe coding a disaster?

Here comes the honest part most articles skip.

The split in the community

Reality is somewhere in between.

The numbers behind the hype

Our position at Singularity Edge Studio

We use AI tooling daily — GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT. They speed up our work significantly. But "vibe coding" in its pure sense — generating production code without deep understanding — is not our approach.

Why? Our clients pay us not just for code that works today. They pay for:

• ✓
  A secure system that can't be hacked
• ✓
  Code that can be maintained 2 years from now
• ✓
  A system that works at 10× the user load
• ✓
  Architecture that allows new features to be added

These things require understanding, experience and accountability — things AI tooling amplifies, but doesn't replace.

Practical guide: how to use AI correctly

The future: augmented developers, not replaced ones

Figma put it well: "One experienced developer with the right AI tooling will manage a team of agents with the effectiveness of 4–5 engineers."

The key phrase is experienced developer.

Conclusion

Vibe coding is neither the revolution that will kill programmers, nor a dangerous toy for amateurs only. The truth is more nuanced:

• ✓
  For prototypes and MVPs — great
• ✓
  For repetitive tasks — indispensable
• ⚠
  For production systems without oversight — risky
• ✕
  To replace an experienced developer — impossible (for now)

If you want a system where you understand every line of code and can maintain and evolve it — get in touch. We use AI tooling wisely, but accountability for the end result is entirely ours.

Singularity Edge Studio — Senior full-stack development in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Get in touch →