Long-time member of the list Stephan Meyer (name shared with permission) asked:
“I am curious about your view on vibe coding. Do you use it?”
Thanks for asking, Stephan. This question opens up a rabbit hole of tactics, opinions, and mild existential crises.
I have many thoughts on vibe coding. Too many for a single email 🙂
For those not familiar with the term, “vibe coding” is essentially creating software by exploring ideas with an AI, having the AI create the code, rather than writing all the code yourself. You basically describe what you want in natural language, review what the AI builds, give feedback, and iterate until it matches your vision.
Do I use it?
For sure.
I think vibe coding is great for rapid prototyping of software applications.
It is also great for creating relatively simple web-based tools, browser plugins, and lightweight utilities that don’t need a full backend.
It is also great for writing Google Ads Scripts!
–> Check out my Google Ads Scripts Sensei to help you with vibe coding Google Ads Scripts.
Just hit the ‘Dictate’ button, speak out, and share your idea. The Script Sensei will take it from there.
Does vibe coding save you time compared to “the old” way of building things?
Sometimes.
BUT, is it good enough to build reliable, scalable, secure software? No, not yet, in my experience. You still need to know what that requires and be able to read the code for more complex applications.
Here’s a short list of other vibe coding tools I like to use these days: v0.dev, Google AI Studio, Cursor, and Claude Code.
– Nils
PS: Wednesday is ‘Ask Me Anything’ day. If you’ve got a question to which my answer would benefit a larger part of the community, send it my way, and I’ll try to answer it 🙂