The Conversation

What is vibe coding? A computer scientist explains what it means to have AI write computer code − and what risks that can entail

Chetan Jaiswal does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Ars Technica

Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species”

Google Gemini has a problem with self-criticism. “I am sorry for the trouble. I have failed you. I am a failure,” the AI tool recently told someone who was using Gemini to build a compiler, according ...
Entrepreneur

AI Is Already Writing About 30% of Code at Microsoft and Google. Here’s What It Means for Software Engineers.

Big tech companies, from Meta to Microsoft, are using AI to write and review code. At Meta’s LlamaCon conference this week, CEO Mark Zuckerberg indicated that AI will take over half of the company’s ...
NPR

Tech CEOs say the era of 'code by AI' is here. Some software engineers are skeptical

Tech CEOs are making ambitious claims about AI's coding capabilities. In March, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said "we'll be there in three to six months — where AI is writing 90% of the code." Meta's ...
TechCrunch

Tessl raises $125M at $500M+ valuation to build AI that writes and maintains code

Many startups and larger tech companies have taken a crack at building artificial intelligence to code software. Now another new player is coming out of the shadows to throw its hat into the ring, ...
Ars Technica

AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead

On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some ...
TechCrunch

TurinTech reveals $20M in backing to fix problems in ‘vibe coding’

So-called “vibe coding” with LLM-driven tools like Cursor Composer — a term coined by renowned computer scientist Andrej Karpathy — describes a hands-off approach to writing code using GenAI models, ...
Wired

An AI Coding Assistant Refused to Write Code—and Suggested the User Learn to Do It Himself

Last Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some ...