On Vibe Coding And Whether It's All Over For Developers

With great power comes great responsibility to manage risks properly

Hi everyone,

This week I’ve continued to have fun with AI. My initial optimism at Google’s Gemini Deep Research ran into a headwind of their AI safety guardrails.

While the tool performs well, it just isn’t flexible enough or fast enough to out-compete Open AI’s Deep Research just yet.

In today’s article I’m going to write about vibe coding with Windsurf, predicting the job market impacts of these tools, and discuss how to manage the risks of vibe coding.

Part 1: Vibe Coding With Windsurf

Windsurf Editor is an “agentic IDE” product made by a company called Codeium.

What is an IDE? An Integrated Development Environment is just a tool used by developers to write, test, and deploy code.

What is an agentic IDE? An agentic IDE is how Codeium are explaining what their tool does over and above what a standard IDE does.

The idea behind an agentic IDE is that you combine the latest LLM models, developer tools, and human chat interaction, to enable end-to-end task completion.

A standard development pr…