"I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year. A failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue."
"AI has radically transformed the software engineering industry, introducing code editors like Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex, along with a slew of agentic software development tools. Business Insider's Amanda Hoover called 2025 'the year coding changed forever.' Karpathy was a key player in the change. In February, he coined the term 'vibe coding.' To vibe code, one prompts AI to generate lines of code."
A leading AI engineer feels unusually behind in adopting recent AI-driven programming tools as the profession undergoes dramatic refactoring. Individual programmers now contribute fewer lines of code while AI handles more routine work. Properly stringing together tools released over the past year could increase personal productivity roughly tenfold, and failing to capture that boost is seen as a skills shortfall. The software engineering landscape has been transformed by code editors such as Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex and by agentic development tools. The term 'vibe coding' describes prompting AI to generate lines of code, and Collins Dictionary named that term word of the year.
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