The 'vibe coding spectrum' approach to AI-assisted software development

arXiv:2609.09560v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study evaluates Vibe Coding, an emerging AI-led conversational programming paradigm that enables developers to generate

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>The first vibes for fun, with little or no technical knowledge. Building a Casio TV bezel tool they never use. A favourite biscuits website. A

Canva made this painfully clear: they gave 5,000 employees a full week to explore AI, and most couldn’t figure out how to start. No surprise there, most vibe-coding tools expect

<p>I spent 15 years perfecting my coding skills, only to watch someone build my latest project idea in an afternoon using ChatGPT and Cursor. The demo looked identical to what I

<p>Vibe coding is real, useful, and produces working software. It is also, past a certain point, a way of generating a mess faster than any one person can clean it.</p> <p>The

<blockquote> <p>Coding is not dying. It already died. You just didn’t attend the funeral.</p> </blockquote> <h2> ⚡ What is Anti-Gravity? </h2> <p>An internal Google IDE that turns

<p>$9.2 billion. That is what investors valued Cursor's parent company Anysphere at in September 2025, after a $400M Series B. Bolt.new hit $2.1B. Lovable raised at $180M.

<p>In <a href="https://www.ashu.co/taking-vibe-coded-into-production/?utm_source=devto&amp;utm_medium=syndication" rel="noopener noreferrer">Part 1</a> of this series, I