Vibe coding will deliver a wonderful proliferation of personalized software

Opinion For most of the last year, the phrase 'vibe coding' seemed more punchline than possibility. That outlook altered significantly over the last month after step-changes in quality mean vibe coding tools now generate code that’s good enough to rewrite expectations about how IT will operate before the end of this decade.

Until early November, none of the passes I've had at vibe coding prior yielded any results worth pursuing. Then I put Anthropic's Claude Code to work (courtesy of $300 in credit from Anthropic) transforming a prototyped Python data analysis project into a full-featured, professional-class tool. It took a few hours (and a fair bit of care and tending), leaving me with the impression that vibe coding had turned a corner into usefulness.

When Google dropped its latest Gemini 3 Pro model at the end of November, they left another gift under the tree: Antigravity, an ...