Vibe coding — describing what you want in natural language and letting AI generate the code — has produced some impressive demos. Full-stack apps from a single prompt. Working UIs from screenshots. Functioning APIs from descriptions.
It has also produced some spectacular failures in production.
What Vibe Coding Gets Right
For prototyping, vibe coding is genuinely revolutionary:
- Validate an idea in hours instead of weeks
- Generate UI layouts faster than any designer
- Create working demos for investor pitches
- Explore technical approaches without writing boilerplate