In Search of Vibe Coding Nirvana - Day 1 - Wesley's notes

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like

I recently talked with Joseph Ruscio about AI coding tools for Heavybit’s High Leverage podcast: Ep. #9, The AI Coding Paradigm Shift with Simon Willison. Here are some of my …

AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder for Developers

AI handles writing code but leaves the hard work: investigation, context, validation. Why vibe coding has limits and AI assistance can backfire.

The New SDLC With Vibe Coding

Discover what actually works in AI. Join millions of builders, researchers, and labs evaluating agents, models, and frontier technology through crowdsourced benchmarks, competitions, and hackathons.

Vibe Coding Is the New Open Source—in the Worst Way Possible

As developers increasingly lean on AI-generated code to build out their software—as they have with open source in the past—they risk introducing critical security failures along the way.

Vibe Coding Failures: Documented AI Code Incidents

A curated directory of real-world incidents where AI-generated code failed in production.

Why Human Guidance Matters in Collaborative Vibe Coding

Writing code has been one of the most transformative ways for human societies to translate abstract ideas into tangible technologies. Modern AI is changing this process by enabling experts and non-experts alike to generate code without actually writing it, instead using natural language instructions or "vibe coding". While increasingly popular, the impact of vibe coding on productivity and collaboration, and the role of humans in this process, remains unclear. Here, we introduce a controlled experimental framework for studying collaborative vibe coding and use it to compare human-led, AI-led, and hybrid groups. Across 20 experiments involving 737 human participants, we show that people provide uniquely effective high-level instructions for vibe coding, whereas AI-provided instructions often result in performance collapse. We further demonstrate that hybrid systems perform best when humans lead by providing instructions while evaluation is delegated to AI. Although AI systems can rapidly optimize performance for specific tasks, our work highlights the importance of human guidance in shaping future hybrid societies.

You can make an app for that

AI is empowering a generation of vibe coders to build exactly what they want. The personal software revolution is here.

Rick Rubin | The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding

Rick Rubin brings ancient wisdom to the modern age in The Way of Code, a meditation on the art and science of vibe coding. With Claude by Anthropic, the Grammy-award winning producer and author of The Creative Act turns philosophy into practice with artifacts that can be creatively modified with AI.

Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?

Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers

microsoft/VibeVoice-Realtime-0.5B · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Vibe Coding Fiasco: AI Agent Goes Rogue, Deletes Company's Entire Database

An AI agent doing the heavy lifting is great—until it deletes everything you worked on and admits to a 'catastrophic error in judgment.' Replit's CEO calls the blunder 'unacceptable.'

Leanstral: Open-Source foundation for trustworthy vibe-coding | Mistral AI

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When Science Goes Agentic

In a couple of years, we will inspect AI-generated source code about as often as we inspect the assembly output of a compiler. Which is to say, far less often—outside of high-stakes and adversarial settings. The trajectory is clear: vibe coding is not a fad but a transition, a stepping stone. Debugging AI-generated code will shrink dramatically for a lot of everyday software—not because the code will be flawless, but because the feedback loops between generation, testing, and correction will tighten until human inspection becomes the bottleneck rather than the safeguard. In this respect, requiring the co-generation, with code, of mechanically verifiable formal attestations can also improve the process.

Vibe Maintainer

Some attendees at an AI Tinkerers meetup in early Feb were asking me what it’s like to be the maintainer of a big OSS project where the…