Vibe coding, or coding with AI, is growing in popularity, but engineers say you have to actually know how to code to do it well.

Vibe coding is a buzzy phrase that describes using AI language tools to write software. You enter a natural language phrase for what you want – to a point – and get back code.

Essentially, vibe coding is interacting with a code base through prompts, so that the engineer’s role is simply to converse with the tool and examine its outcome, explains Sergey Tselovalnikov ...