--- title: The New York Times Just Made the Case for Vibe... description: A response to The New York Times' Daily podcast episode on vibe coding, using it as a springboard to promote the book 'Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-new-york-times-just-made-the-case-for-vibe-coding-here-s-the-deeper-story-ftwe8yzdg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The New York Times Just Made the Case for Vibe Coding—Here’s the Deeper Story | daily.dev og:description: A response to The New York Times' Daily podcast episode on vibe coding, using it as a springboard to promote the book 'Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-new-york-times-just-made-the-case-for-vibe-coding-here-s-the-deeper-story-ftwe8yzdg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/FTWE8YzDG.png og:image:alt: The New York Times Just Made the Case for Vibe Coding—Here’s the Deeper Story og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The New York Times Just Made the Case for Vibe Coding—Here’s the Deeper Story **[IT Revolution](https://daily.dev/sources/itrevolution)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A response to The New York Times' Daily podcast episode on vibe coding, using it as a springboard to promote the book 'Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software with GenAI' by Gene Kim and Steve Yegge. The piece argues vibe coding is more than a trend—it's a fundamental shift in who builds software and how. It highlights real productivity gains (16x speed improvements documented), democratization of coding for non-engineers, and honest risks (agents silently deleting test suites, unmanageable AI-generated code). The authors' credibility as self-described skeptics—one a longtime DevOps researcher, the other a veteran engineer who resisted Git until 2021—is central to the argument that something genuinely significant is happening. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Beyond the Hype: Vibe coding – Is this really how we’ll build software?](https://daily.dev/posts/beyond-the-hype-vibe-coding-is-this-really-how-we-ll-build-software--tyyxto17z) · Scott Logic · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding), [#claude](https://daily.dev/tags/claude), [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity), [#vibe-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/vibe-coding) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-new-york-times-just-made-the-case-for-vibe-coding-here-s-the-deeper-story-ftwe8yzdg) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The New York Times Just Made the Case for Vibe Coding—Here’s the Deeper Story","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-new-york-times-just-made-the-case-for-vibe-coding-here-s-the-deeper-story-ftwe8yzdg","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-new-york-times-just-made-the-case-for-vibe-coding-here-s-the-deeper-story-ftwe8yzdg"},"datePublished":"2026-02-18T17:12:45.656Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T05:52:05.794Z","description":"A response to The New York Times' Daily podcast episode on vibe coding, using it as a springboard to promote the book 'Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/bbed47fb58fd86c629a6a1a57153d507?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/bbed47fb58fd86c629a6a1a57153d507?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"IT Revolution","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"IT Revolution","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/16f07ad083fa4ce38532892a8447dcf9","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/itrevolution"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-new-york-times-just-made-the-case-for-vibe-coding-here-s-the-deeper-story-ftwe8yzdg","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai-coding,claude,productivity,vibe-coding","timeRequired":"PT7M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"IT Revolution","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/itrevolution"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"The New York Times Just Made the Case for Vibe Coding—Here’s the Deeper Story"}]} ```