Vibe coding
A way of building software where a person describes what they want and accepts the code AI tools write without reading it, judging only whether the result works.
A way to build software that involves focus primarily on the direction of the result, and little attention to the way the software is being built.
Kind of
- Agentic A way of working in which an agent plans and carries out the work, decides its own next steps, and uses tools to complete a task or goal.
Often confused with
- Agentic coding A type of programming where a person gives a goal or loose instructions, and an agent decides its own next steps to plan, write, run and test the code.
- Software factory A software development pipeline where people supply the instructions and checks, and agents do most of the building, testing and fixing.
Related
- Cognitive debt The growing gap between what you have produced with AI and what you understand, which you pay for later when you need to fix, explain or build on it.
- Citizen developer An employee who sits outside the formal IT team and uses tools available to build software to support their team or company.