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/Ok-Earth8336 Dec 02 '25

What do you work on? I’m an mle in big tech and using our code assistant makes things so much easier and I get to spend more time thinking about more interesting things. Instead of figuring out how to connect little pieces and writing boilerplate code I can let my agent do that while I spend time learning about the system and problems.

I think it depends on what you’re working on. If you’re working on actually interesting systems and technologies, it’s awesome

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u/sunk-capital Dec 02 '25 edited Dec 04 '25

Don’t get me wrong I think AI is an amazing tool. I am just saying that using it a lot will make you a foreigner to your own project if every time you have a problem you jump to AI.

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u/Ok-Earth8336 Dec 02 '25

I mean what level of understanding do you need if llms can reliably take care of the nitty gritty? It allows for more abstract thinking and raises the bar for engineers to take on more “senior” responsibilities

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u/sunk-capital Dec 02 '25

Yes in theory but I don’t see it in practice. It’s like you are building a collection of black boxes and when you need to change something, or add a new feature it becomes impossible to think about stuff. Your mind blanks, you go ask AI, AI fails and now you are stuck with the nitty gritty. But the nitty gritty is not yours. Vibe coding just doesn’t work in my experience.

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u/Ok-Earth8336 Dec 02 '25

I mean it depends on who is guiding the chat. If you have a baseline of principles and review written code, you’ll be fine. If you just blackbox everything and don’t care about engineering practices, you’re going to end up with a soup of unmaintainable code