So the CEO of Google just told everyone that the future of software is "vibe coding." I—m not making this up. It sounds like something you—d do at a music festival, not while trying to debug a 3 AM server crash.

Basically, Sundar Pichai is hyping up AI tools that let you describe what you want in plain English, and the computer supposedly writes the code for you. It—s the dream of telling your laptop —make me a viral app— and then just vibing until it—s done. Over on Reddit, where nearly 300 real developers have been passionately discussing this, the reaction has been less "wow, magic" and more "oh, sweet summer child."

The funny part is that any developer knows the AI doesn—t actually understand the "vibe." It—s like a very enthusiastic intern who copies code from Stack Overflow without reading the comments. Sure, it might spit out a functioning function, but it has no concept of why that code works, whether it—s secure, or if it—s about to accidentally summon a digital demon. You—ll ask for a simple button and get 500 lines of CSS that only works on a specific browser from 2012.

Calling it "vibe coding" is also hilarious because a developer—s real vibe is 90% frustration. It—s the vibe of staring at a semicolon for an hour. It—s the vibe of your program working perfectly in the test environment and then immediately catching fire in the real one. An AI can—t replicate the core human experience of wanting to gently place your computer in the ocean.

In the end, these AI tools are probably great for generating boilerplate code or explaining confusing errors. But the idea that we can just vibe our way through complex engineering is a fantasy. The real magic isn—t in the first draft of code an AI writes; it—s in the human who has to fix it. So go ahead and embrace the AI helpers, but maybe keep the ocean-vibe on standby, just in case.