“Vibe coding” is when you use AI tools or editors like ChatGPT, Cursor, or Grok to generate code based on prompts to build a digital product, such as a website or even mobile apps. There have been a lot of claims on social media that you can have no knowledge (or very basic knowledge) of coding and just copy and paste the code, following the AI guide to create an app that can generate revenue by publishing it on the app store and make money passively.

I personally don’t really believe that. To build a product that people want to use, you need to go through different stages of user research and business analysis—not to mention the design aspect, which AI tools used for “vibe coding” can hardly handle (yet). Besides, the code generated might work on the surface, but there are a lot of backend requirements to consider, such as security and how to store user data.

AI tools are just a tool, like a hammer, and it depends on the user of that tool to create a quality product. You can’t just wield a hammer and say you’re an engineer. AI tools can definitely make a developer’s life easier and help ship products faster, but they cannot replace an experienced developer who can understand, troubleshoot, and enhance the code when necessary.

There’s a great video about vibe coding made by Jeffrey @Lytbox that you can watch on YouTube: