It’s Me, Hi. I’m the Vibe Coder.
Katie Parrott is a writer and content strategist. She examines how technology is changing work in her monthly column, Working Overtime. I never meant to build software. Then AI made it easy. May 1, 2025 Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. "There is no consumer desire to 'make apps,'" the post proclaimed. "Vibe coding," it went on, only appeals to those already motivated to code "the old way.” Here I was, spending my sacred weekend hours vibe coding an app with no coding background—yet according to this tech observer, the 1,000 people who liked his post on X, and everyone who’s ever derisively posted that people should “learn to code,” I didn't exist. (Quick aside: “Vibe coding” is a term coined by OpenAI founding team member Andrej Karpathy to describe coding with AI-powered tools like Cursor that convert natural language instructions into working code. The idea is that you “fully give into the vibes… and forget the code even exists.”) It's flattering
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