Vibe coding is a practice where people use AI tools to generate software code by describing what they want in plain language to the tool, with little to no traditional programming knowledge required.

As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software gets built has changed for good.

Software developers have spent the past two years watching AI coding tools evolve from advanced autocomplete into something that can, in some cases, build entire applications from a text prompt. Tools ...

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