What is Vibe Coding?

Madonna first invented VIBE codingbackin 1985 folks - it goes all the waay back to 1986

There's an old saying: 'If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is." Vibe coding is a perfect example of that.

As a designer, this frustrates me to my core from my non-developers/ designer counterparts.

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You don't truly develop any true skills. You can only get so far, because anything meaningful and complex will become out of the AI's scope. Put in the work to code yourself and you will be able to get better "vibes" coding decent projects

Student and first time user of Replit. I was using the free version and I had it generate code but couldn't view. Apparently there is a way to download it but the ai only allows me to ask like 6 questions then demands that I pay and still won't let me download my code. I was asking for instructions but it kept giving me answer that didn't work. If this what they think is AI then Gemini is far superior. What a disappointment.

No such thing as AI writing even functional code for platforms like Java - most of the time, not even difficult stuff, just average at best, nearly everything has to be fixed manually, so vibe coding = just dumb marketing

You stated “vibe coding is just to use AI to code” like 4 times in this 4 minute video 😢

Create an Antigravity course focused on people who don't know how to program. The courses I've bought before aren't well-suited for beginners.



The course should include:



What we need to know before writing a prompt.



How to create the environment according to the platform type: web, progressive web app, or mobile, and how to choose the correct language, packages, and paths on our computer, depending on the platform. This is important because if you request a progressive web app and you don't have what's necessary on your device and computer, Antigravity won't work.



A step-by-step guide: how to place the prompt, what permissions it can request, and what errors might occur.



We need something like this to be truly useful for those of us with no coding experience. Please add an audio track so it can be translated into Spanish.

Dumbest name ever.

Letting juniors vibe code is such a waste if electricity and hardware to be honest. Good for prototyping? Maybe. Helpful for professionals? Maybe not, at least for me

I've been coding since the 90s... Heck I have a cs degree. I was bored one weekend so decided to play with Gemini as a code agent... I spent that weekend finishing old projects that ID never bothered finishing... Literally got months of work done in 2 days and had fun.

Then I used up all the free tokens ID been banking... So it tried out other stuff... With the intent to buy a sub to something...

Cut to a month later. I'm now dual booting my win11 workstation into Kali Linux (because pen testing is fun) hosting a slew of LLMs with ollama and I've literally finished all the work on my plate... I'm now months ahead... Fully tested and pushed.

Being a little bored with the cli options available... And really thier lack of cool features. Ive just spent the weekend writing my own coder centric cli.

Im now using that for production work, all running locally. To be fair I already had a decent server class system that's my workstation... And I game on it so it had the overhead to make it work without changes.

Personally I think it's great... But I promise somebody with no ability to code isn't going to learn much from vibe coding. And actually that's been my main problem the default cli clients. They truncate shell commands and console output in general or simple scroll to quickly without sensible divisions or the ability to scroll back while its running.

Honestly the biggest issue so far is that the agents are often too helpful and half the time I end up scolding the agent for not following directions or for over complicating things or for immediately losing the plot and writing something that isn't it all what we're trying to produce.

But yeah... Bring on the era of custom software written by everyone.

damn I thought Heartbound's code was bad. thank god piratesoftware wasnt a vibe """""coder""""""

It’s so daunting!

You look like MR ROBOT

Vibe code is the in future 🎉

Replit is the first and only ai coding platform that has allowed me to get my full idea out and off paper.

Building my ideas and then allowing me to work locally and work in partnership with replit to decode issues faster.

I was a full stack developer and I owned my own company, being out of it so long at this point your platform has given me the ability to get back to what I love!!


The team at replit have built one amazing platform to help so much!!!

Is there any guide to vibe code?

This was just an ad for a shitty web site.

For complex apps, a platform like Replet that handles all that hard stuff makes total sense. But for simple static sites (like a landing page or a blog), I've found the vibe is different. It's faster to just let the AI build the static dist folder, zip it up, and drop it on a dead-simple static hosting service. Tools like Tiiny Host have really nailed that 10 sec deploy workflow, which keeps the friction low for simpler projects. Great video, it's important to separate the code generation from the platform problems.

Same here developing a project using Windsurf. Really helpful video want to try Replit to develop personal projects.

What do you think about a chatbot creating the prompt, in terms of efficiency to vibe code?

Well explained. Helped me as a business person.

Great video and really helpful breakdown of vibe coding and how Replit is evolving! I’m curious...how do you think Replit’s AI coding experience compares to other tools like Cursor or Oppla AI, especially in terms of usability and feature set? Would love to hear your thoughts or see a side-by-side comparison. I've used so many tools right now that I am finding it harder to find the time to invest in really knowing what's best for my workflows...

Thanks for sharing your insights!

Man, this year Ive taken a deep dive with AI. Learning so much everyday. Im building full on systems, applications, etc from vibe coding. I do have some very minor experience, but all heavy lifting of course thanks to AI. Just landed on Replit because I asked Claude about any sites that are worthy to check out. Excited to try it and also to check out more videos you have here.

I have been vibe coding for about 3 years now (ever since GPT 3.5 came out) and I never touch anything that is sensitive. I just build web scrapers, data analysis tools and my last project is a 60k line project in Kotlin that is just a simple Minecraft/Terraria imitation. I did everything in Claude Pro, but might try Replit so I can build some apps that have some sensitive data. I always wanted to build a simple site where students can sell their study books (the one site in my country that did that closed down), but I quickly realized this is too sensitive of an area, since I would have to handle customer data and I have absolute 0 programming knowledge.

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Fantastic video. My first introduction into exactly what vibe coding was. Before watching your video I thought it was actually a coding language. Subscribed.

Very well explained Matt. More power to you!!

Vibe coding needs new branding. It is basically just paired programming with AI.

Vibe coding is like incompetent coder cheat their way to finish simple tasks.

"Is it being super lazy and letting AI write all your code for you?" - Yes, yes it is.

Replit would be a lot better if you didn't limit the amount of checkpoints and projects. No way I'm paying for that stuff.

In the end the vibe coders will look back and realize that by the time they really get the hang of vibe coding (being able to build more than a sloppy prototype with vulnerabilities galore, which they couldn’t even comprehend at first), that they inadvertently picked up the skills and knowledge necessary to become proficient junior devs… something they thought they were skipping.

Hours of trial and error and troubleshooting led them on a journey to understand their stack and the adjacent technologies, necessary APIs, journeys through the documentation, and crash courses in programming methodology to even get around all the issues they ran into.

I'm going to become a Vibe coder 😎

Thank Matt, vibe coding with Replit

Is it possible on replit to add context for the AI to pull from in reference to a project. I want to use it to create a website from my company but I don't want to have to write prompts to describe my products to the AI. Is there a way to say, use these repositories and this documentation as references when working on this project.

Tools like this will only serve to foster innovation between two groups that have had a traditionally difficult time interacting - artistic leaning creative problem solvers and skilled developers that build things every day and yet think they "aren't creative".

Now, I can go to someone that actually knows what they're doing with a working prototype that will express the idea far better than I ever could before. Kinda like how making a demo tape on your own might lead you to forming a band.

I've been digging my heels in on researching a potential MAS system that could help folks learn a proven brainstorming method in a highly personalized manner, with real world results. I want to harness the power of this technology to build creative thinking skills that will ultimately improve how you interact with these tools.

The state of flow that I get into vibe coding with Replit is exactly the same for me as playing music or making art. A month ago, thinking about stuff like this would have never entered my mind. New dimension of stoke unlocked.

Great video! I've been using Replit for some time now and its great. If you are vibe coding its essential to ask questions along the way and learn what's happening in the background. I found my prompts are more meaningful this way.

Question: What camera are you using for this video!?

Like. A lot.😀

Vibe code and Vibe music making for life

It’s being trendy DoucheTubers and using an absolutely asinine term when AI coding is 100% accurate. It sure as shit doesn’t require a video to explain something so moronic 😂

Great stuff