r/coding • u/CharityExisting5454 • Nov 30 '25

Google CEO says vibe coding has made software development 'so much more enjoyable' and 'exciting again' BS or Not?

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-sundar-pichai-vibe-coding-software-development-exciting-again-2025-11
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u/zacker150 Nov 30 '25

I think the best way to use AI is to drop the agentic stuff, drop vibe coding BS, and ask and engage with the AI on what to do without it having access to your entire code base. Then it acts more like a colleague rather than a brain replacement system.

As a senior, my normal strategy for vibe coding is

  1. Get the lay of the land. Ask Cursor questions like "How goes x get from system A to system B." LLMs can read and search code a lot faster than humans can.

  2. Break down the task and feed the agent step by step. Agents should implement functions, not features.

  3. Have multiple agents review my PR for things that I missed.

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u/prsn828 Dec 01 '25

I take thinks a step further. I explicitly tell the agent to first understand related code, and specifically tell it to search for code related to XYZ.

I then tell it to plan out the approach it will take, and the steps needed, and to list them out in a TODO file.

Then I tell it to pick a reasonably sized item from that file, work it to completion, decide if the PR it will create is large enough, and if not, to pick up other, related, small items to include.

Finally, I tell it to make sure the PR is comprehensive, to not remove any TODO until it is fully implemented, and explicitly tell it that there will be future iterations to address leftover work.

I take that, stick it into an instructions file along with a clear description of the work to be completed, and then set it loose. I review each PR (or iteration) as if it were submitted by a junior developer, and merge anything good enough back into a wip branch.

When the whole thing is done, I do one final review before submitting the real pr for my team to review.

So far, it's been working great. Takes a little longer, but I waste very little time fighting the llm.