Beyond Vibe Coding

Preface

We’re in the midst of a profound shift in how software is built. Professional vibe coding—the art of collaborating with AI to create software—is transforming developers from code artisans into product visionaries and orchestrators.

Vibe coding is about leveraging AI’s prowess to handle the heavy lifting of coding, allowing developers to focus more on ideas, design, and high-level problem solving. As Andrej Karpathy quipped, it’s like “forget[ting] the code even exists” and simply building—describing what you need and letting the AI fill in the implementation details. This can lead to order-of-magnitude productivity gains, making the mythical “10x engineer” potentially a 100x reality.

Who This Book Is For

This book is written for three key audiences. The first is experienced developers and engineering leaders who want to multiply their impact. If you’ve been coding for years and feel the weight of repetitive tasks, this book will show you how to delegate the mundane to AI while elevating your role to architect and strategist. You’ll learn to build faster without sacrificing the quality standards you’ve developed over your career.

Second, this book serves product-minded engineers who see code as a means to an end rather than an end itself. If you’re frustrated by the gap between having a vision and implementing it, vibe coding can dramatically compress that distance. You’ll discover how to rapidly prototype, iterate, and ship products that would have taken months with ...