OpenClaw creator says 'vibe coding' has become a slur

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OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger compared coding with AI to playing the guitar.

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Freaking out about AI destroying jobs? Look here to see what's really happening.

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Tech leaders, including Dario Amodei and Sam Altman, at an AI summit in India
Tech leaders, including Dario Amodei and Sam Altman, at an AI summit in India

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I'm an Amazon tech lead who uses AI to write code daily. There's one situation I hesitate to use it in.

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Anni Chen
Anni Chen says vibe coding is hard to resist. It speeds up her productivity, but she cautions against using it at scale or for production.

Anni Chen

These Y Combinator founders raised $10 million to get corporate America into vibe coding. Read their pitch deck.

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Vybe cofounders Quang Hoang and Fabien Devos with their arms around one another, standing in front of a brick wall.
Vybe cofounders Quang Hoang and Fabien Devos.

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Amazon limits on Claude Code frustrate employees, including some who have to sell it to cloud customers

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AWS CEO Matt Garman
AWS CEO Matt Garman

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This CEO wants AI agents to outnumber his human employees this year

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Stackblitz CEO Eric Simons
Stackblitz CEO Eric Simons

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Microsoft AI CEO says vibe coding is making software easier to replace

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Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI
Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI.

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The creator of Clawdbot, the viral AI agent, says he got so obsessed with vibe coding it pulled him into a 'rabbit hole'

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The creator of Clawdbot, the viral AI agent now known as OpenClaw, says he had to step back after vibe coding pulled him into a "rabbit hole."

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I embedded myself in a vibe coding team at Gemini's AI hackathon in Singapore. Building an app in 7 hours takes real work.

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Following a team at Gemini 3 hackathon in Singapore
I followed a hackathon team as they raced to vibe code an app in seven hours at Google's Gemini 3 Hackathon in Singapore.

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Ex-Tesla AI head has seen a 'phase shift in software engineering' using Claude Code — and his manual skills slowly 'atrophy'

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Andrej Karpathy, a Tesla and OpenAI alum, wrote that he is "sheepishly" telling a coding agent what to write.

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