Vibe Coding
Using AI tools to write software through conversation and iteration rather than line-by-line authorship — describing what you want to build and having Claude or Cursor generate working code, then refining it through follow-up instructions. Increasingly viable for prototyping and building internal tools, even for people with limited coding experience. Requires engineering judgment to manage code quality and security — vibe-coded software still needs review, testing, and someone who can debug when things break.
In practice
You describe what you want to build in plain English — "a dashboard that shows monthly sales by region, filterable by product" — and Claude Code generates the actual code. You review it, run it, describe what to change, and Claude updates it. Vibe coding is building software by conversation rather than by writing every line yourself.
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