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00:00:00in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth i think i went too early in the beginning
00:00:06engineers used zero and one then they got tired of writing numbers so they created assembly then
00:00:11they got tired of assembly so they created programming languages and when they got tired
00:00:16of writing code altogether they created ai to write code for them and then they started having
00:00:21an existential crisis about the whole thing so to understand how this whole vibe coding thing was
00:00:26born we need to go back to 2021 when github first released something called copilot an ai tool
00:00:33that sat inside your code editor and basically helped you complete your code it was genuinely
00:00:38useful but at that point it was still very much just an autocomplete tool for developers
00:00:43and then chat gpt arrived in late 2022 and things started getting really interesting because now for
00:00:49the first time in history you could just describe what you wanted in plain english and the ai would
00:00:55hand you the code people started copy pasting entire chunks of code into their projects without fully
00:01:00understanding what any of it did and shockingly a lot of it just worked everyone was doing it but
00:01:07nobody quite had a word for what were they doing but this was just the beginning at first developers
00:01:13were still mostly copy pasting code from a browser tab into their editor but then some of the top minds in
00:01:18tech thought why not just bring the whole ai into the code editor instead and a whole wave of tools showed
00:01:25up in a very short amount of time in 2023 cursor was launched and it genuinely changed every developer
00:01:31workflow it wasn't just autocomplete now ai tools could understand your entire code base and you could
00:01:38describe what you wanted in plain english right inside your editor and it would work on the code like an actual
00:01:43developer would by 2024 models like claude got surprisingly good at reasoning through large complex projects
00:01:50and developers started spending less time typing and more time just having conversations with their
00:01:55software and then the revolutionary ai coding agents like claude code arrived in 2025. now instead of
00:02:02asking the ai to write one function at a time you could ask it to build entire features it was like having a
00:02:08developer sitting inside your computer and you were just handing it tickets to complete and this is around
00:02:14the time a very important question started floating around everywhere if you don't understand the code
00:02:19your app is running on are you even really coding nobody had a clean answer yet but someone was about to
00:02:25give this whole phenomenon a name february 2025 andre karpathy co-founder of open ai former head of ai at tesla
00:02:35posted something on x that broke the internet in the notiest possible way he wrote about how
00:02:40he'd been building software by just vibing with an ai barely reading the code mostly just accepting
00:02:45what it suggested and nudging it when something felt off and he called it vibe coding that post did
00:02:51something really powerful it gave a name to something millions of people were already doing but didn't
00:02:56quite have language for within weeks vibe coding was everywhere and of course people had their
00:03:02questions about this whole thing there were people who were supporting this trend and others were against
00:03:07it most people argue that the problem with ai generated code is that most of the time it has security
00:03:12vulnerabilities and it doesn't handle edge cases very well and it is actually true ai generated code can
00:03:19work perfectly fine until they fail at the worst possible moment and you have no idea why because
00:03:24you never understood what was running in the first place and underneath all of that is a bigger more
00:03:30uncomfortable question if the next generation of developers never learns the fundamentals because
00:03:35the ai just handles it what happens to the collective knowledge of how this stuff actually works are we
00:03:41building a generation of people who can drive a car but have absolutely no idea how the engine functions
00:03:47that might be fine right up until the engine breaks but then there is the other side of the story
00:03:52every tool in history that made something easier was met with exactly this kind of resistance photography
00:03:59didn't kill painting calculators didn't make mathematicians obsolete and maybe ai handling the
00:04:05tedious mechanical parts of coding just frees people up to focus on the actually interesting stuff things
00:04:11like ideas design and problem solving and if you have become too dependent on ai and want to improve your
00:04:18skills one thing you can check out is code crafters it's basically a platform where you get to build
00:04:23interesting stuff yourself and trust me this will help you grow from a developer into an engineer
00:04:28link is in the descriptions so after everything we've discussed now the question is where does this
00:04:34all go from here honestly it's hard to say and i'll admit i might be a little idly making a video
00:04:40called the history of something that is very much still happening the tools are getting dramatically better
00:04:46ai coding agents like cursor clawed code and others are now capable of building entire features
00:04:52autonomously but here's the thing nobody has a clean answer to yet and this is what i genuinely
00:04:57want to know what you think about as ai gets better at writing code what does it actually mean to be a
00:05:02software developer let me know in comments what do you think and i'm genuinely curious whether you think
00:05:08this is the best thing to happen to software or a slow-moving disaster we'll regret in five years
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