Vibe Coding: Design Thinking For The AI Era
Vibe Coding is a dream come true for big thinkers with no coding skills, an excellent asset for AI to self-iterate, and a nightmare of fragile code from the point of view of some developers.
Benzinga spoke with four AI and Web3 development leaders to get their take on the power and trajectory of Vibe Coding:
Ahmad Shadid, CEO, of O.XYZ, an AI-led decentralized organization, with a background as a backend Python engineer; Carter Feldman, CEO, of Psy Protocol which is building decentralized infrastructure; Dana Love, Co-founder, PoobahAI, focused on AI-assisted development tools and a long-time voice on low-code and no-code innovation; and Syed Hussain, Co-founder of Shiza, a platform building prediction market infrastructure at the intersection of AI and blockchain.
What is Vibe Coding?
To an outsider, Vibe Coding looks like a way to build apps using AI without the grueling process of learning any syntax in coding languages. To someone versed in agentic AI, vibe coding is how Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT-5o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Gemini 2.5 Pro can self-iterate, with bots creating more bots. Among the experts, Vibe Coding is somewhat subjective but brimming with potential.
“Vibe coding carries a negative sentiment in the developer community, who view it as not real coding. To me, that feels a lot like people who denigrated HTML as not a real language,” Love said.
Vibe Coding gives users the potential to design apps without having to code just by describing in precise detail to AI what it is that you want. But as anyone who has played RPGs can …
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