Vibe Coding Quotes

“This is about taking your hard-won engineering discipline and applying it with greater intensity.”
― Gene Kim, Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond

“PWE tech stack”—PowerPoint”
― Gene Kim, Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond

“Infrastructure Engineers (DBAs”
― Gene Kim, Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond

“Delegation of implementation doesn’t mean delegation of responsibility. Your users, colleagues, and leadership don’t (or shouldn’t) care which parts were written by AI—they rightfully expect you to stand behind every line of code. When something breaks in production at 2 a.m., no one wants to hear, “Well, AI wrote that part.” You own the final result, period. This is both liberating and challenging.”
― Gene Kim, Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond

“remote procedure call (neither JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP or WebSocket,”
― Gene Kim, Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond

“We believe AI will gain our trust as it gains more long-term memory, which will presumably make it better at following our sometimes vague orders.”
― Gene Kim, Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond

“However, AI could soon think like you: understand your explicit instructions, but also your coding philosophy, project context, and long-term intentions and goals.”
― Gene Kim, Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond

“Sometimes it’s awful, sometimes it’s close but not quite there, and sometimes it blows your socks off. Each of the good payouts delivers a tiny hit of dopamine, a neurochemical reward that makes us feel good and encourages us to pull the lever again.”
― Gene Kim, Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond

“Despite AIs seeming confusingly human-like, they’re nevertheless capable of superhuman amounts”
― Gene Kim, Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond

“Your judgement and experience is are more important than ever. AI can be wrong.”
― Gene Kim, Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond