Steve Yegge's Vibe Coding Manifesto: Why Claude Code Isn't It & What Comes After the IDE

In a live discussion at the AI Engineering Summit, Steve Yegge discusses Vibe Coding and AI engineering, highlighting the resistance from senior engineers with 12-15 years of experience who feel threatened by these new approaches. He advocates for abandoning traditional IDEs in favor of AI agents for coding, predicting that those who don't adapt will become obsolete. Yegge shares anecdotes about the productivity gains achieved through AI, the challenges of agentic coding, and the importance of orchestrating multiple agents effectively. He touches on the future of coding, envisioning a shift towards "factory farming code" and the need for better tools to manage the merging of code produced by AI agents, and also shares his perspective on the internal chaos and execution problems within major AI research companies like Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI.