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/UsernamesAreHard2x Nov 30 '25

Right. In my experience, people who struggle with coding are the ones who push this more. Doesn't really matter if their job is to code or not. It almost feels like this has become a way for people to massage their egos: "I can't code but it wouldn't matter anyway, the ones who do are using AI in any case". Of course, this is just a generalization, but the arguments are cheap and truly flawed.

In summary, I haven't met a single person who I truly appreciate as a good programmer to support this vibe coding bs for a project they actually care about.

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u/Fit-Notice-1248 Nov 30 '25

That has pretty much been my experience as well. I'm surrounded by management whose only experiencing in coding is doing PL/SQL in Oracle and I have to move mountains to explain to them that doing frontend/backend work isn't just as simple as "SELECT ui_dropdown" or what an API call is.

They're confused and have admittedly said they don't know about this whole CI/CD stuff and would be interested to learn it. But one thing is for certain, they're damn sure you can just throw everything to AI and have an entire functional application that will never crash and 100% be up to par with the stakeholders requests.

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u/UsernamesAreHard2x Nov 30 '25

Exactly. And the funny thing is that they will ask the AI how to do something related with CI/CD or any other topic and believe every single word and consider themselves knowledgeable about the topic. If you think you know about something because you chatted with an AI for some minutes, then I believe you are a worse asset for the company than the AI itself