Vibe Coding Is About A Year Old

InnovationAIVibe Coding Is About A Year OldByJohn Werner,Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an MIT Senior Fellow & Lecturer, 5x-founder & VC investing in AIFollow AuthorMay 28, 2026, 08:38pm EDTA hand reaches toward a laptop showing Vibe Coding with light bulbs around it.gettyIt’s interesting times for technology and the “non-tech person”- someone who never wanted to be involved with AI or any kind of digital undertaking in particular, who now finds themself surrounded by all sorts of tools requiring little to no prior understanding for their use.People talk about the “democratization of tech,” with everything that comes along with it. There’s the opportunity for people with no coding background to create a codebase or app, although articles like this one point to potential security snafus.Covering some of the pitfalls of DIY vibe coding for Tech Times, Richard Wells cites a Stanford study, writing:“Developers using AI coding tools not only wrote less secure code than those who did not — they simultaneously reported higher confidence in its security. The trust paradox has practical consequences for non-developers, who have no engineering baseline from which to calibrate that misplaced confidence.”In Which The Original Vibe Coder Provides a CaveatEven Andrej Karpathy, commonly considered the godfather of vibe coding, has shifted stance a little bit.MORE FOR YOUHere’s his original post from Feb. 2 of last year:“There's a new kind of coding I call ‘vibe coding’, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good.”Having had a year to think about it, Karpathy is now referring to “agentic engineering” as a revised outlook.“The goal is to claim the leverage from the use of agents but without any compromise on the quality of the software,” he writes. “Many people have tried t...