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Steve Yegge's Vibe Coding Manifesto: Why Claude Code Isn't It & What Comes After the IDE

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Steve Yegge's Vibe Coding Manifesto: Why Claude Code Isn't It & What Comes After the IDE

Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

2025/12/26
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

2025/12/26
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Note: Steve and Gene’s talk on Vibe Coding and the post IDE world was one of the top talks of AIE CODE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dtu2bilcFs&t=1019s&pp=0gcJCU0KAYcqIYzv From building legendary platforms at Google and Amazon to authoring one of th...

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The era of writing code line by line is fading, replaced by a new paradigm where developers orchestrate AI agents to build software at scale. This conversation dives into the cultural, technical, and psychological shifts defining the future of engineering.
02:29
Using an IDE for coding is a sign of a bad engineer by January 1st
04:54
Even world-class engineers not using AI may become 'interns' in a year
07:13
Learning agentic coding is like learning to drive — high-performance but risky without proper training.
13:34
The future tool won't be an IDE but an agent orchestration dashboard
16:23
Beads receives PRs from people likely with AI assistance, showing AI's role in real-world development.
30:54
AI has been getting four times smarter every 18 months, with potentially two more growth cycles in three years.
33:14
Agents are writing code to call tools instead of making direct tool calls, a pattern first found by Cloudflare and confirmed by Anthropic.

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Is Vibe Coding the End of Traditional Programming?
00:00
Why Senior Engineers Are Fighting Back Against AI
04:54
How 2,000 Hours of Practice Builds True AI Trust
07:13
Will Your IDE Be Obsolete by Next Year?
11:21
What Happens When Everyone Codes 10x Faster?
15:35
When AI Agents Turn on You: The Danger of Trust
19:58
Should Kids Learn to Code—Or Just Vibe Code?
33:14

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swyx: We are here live at AI Engineer Summit with Steve Yegge, the legendary Steve Yegge of Stevie's Tech Talks, Stevie's Platforms, Brands, and, most recently, Sourcegraph and Amp. Welcome. And most recently, Vibe Coding, That's right, the Vibe Coding boo...