Natalie Kitroff

A new way of programming that may be the biggest development in artificial intelligence since the launch of ChatGPT.

It's Wednesday, February 18th.

Okay, so the other day I slacked you, Kevin Roos, my colleague, my friend, the host of the New York Times tech podcast, Hard Fork.

And I asked you, what is vibe coding?

Because this is a thing I had been hearing about and I had no idea what it was.

And you answered me roughly in the tone that one might use with their very elderly grandmother, I think.

Fair to say?

Yeah.

Yeah, okay, fair enough.

So since then, I did my own research as any young person would do, and I've come to the understanding that vibe coding is, in fact, very important.

It appears to be using AI in a way that is truly revolutionary, and I do think that

that I cannot possibly be the only one who has not caught up to this.

And so I want to ask you to just start by laying out the basics for those of us who aren't there yet.

What is vibe coding?

So what does that actually look like?

You experimented with it.

What did that do for you?

Oh, my God.

That's amazing.

So useful.