Vibe Coding Is Not Software Development — And It's Starting to Show

“We strongly believe that in the coming years, writing code manually won't be a thing”: Inside the new wave of AI vibe coding tools turning prompts into plugins

PLUGIN WEEK 2026: The first that most of us heard of vibe coding was when Rick Rubin called it the “punk rock of software.” For those of you not up on your punk software, vibe coding is a cutting-edge technique that utilizes an AI assistant like Claude or ChatGPT to develop software applications through prompts. Or, according to IBM, “a fresh take in coding where users express their intention using plain speech and the AI transforms that thinkin…

Vibe Coding Is Not Software Development — And It's Starting to Show

A few weeks ago, a colleague came to me excited about a side project he'd been building. He'd been using Claude to generate the entire codebase — no prior development experience, just prompts and vibes. He showed me the app — already live, already being used to run his business. Not a prototype. Not a demo. A real product with real users and real data. Then I asked him a simple question: "What stack is it running on?" He didn't know. Not "I'm no…