Vibe Coding

2025 has seen the rise of “vibe coding”: using AI tools such as Cursor to hyper-accelerate software development, allowing engineers to enter a purely expressive mindset and delegating the tricky technical details to machines.

If you’ve vibe coded, and you’re enjoying the freeform, creative headspace that you can enter while doing it, I have a couple of suggestions to take your vibing to the next level:

Vibe Drawing: Get some printer paper and a pen (if you’ve got colored pencils or oil paints, even better). Using pure vibes, apply lines, shapes, and textures to the paper in a way that comports with your inner state. Share with your family and friends, and display in a prominent household location, like the refrigerator!

Vibe Writing: Freed from the syntactic constraints of code, take this opportunity to write about whatever you want! Open up a fresh Markdown file, or use the pen and paper from the previous exercise, and let your imagination run wild. You could tell an imagined audience about something you’ve thought or experienced, or perhaps arrange a series of words that sound cool when spoken aloud in a way that stirs emotion. You could even make up a completely fabricated story, featuring people who don’t even exist!

Vibe Sounds: It doesn’t get vibier than this. Find something that will vibrate surrounding air particles. There’s a set of membranes in your larynx that will get the job done, but there are also a number of machines expressly designed for this purpose (ask Grok for more info). Once you get the hang of creating the vibrations, practice producing frequencies that differ from the original tone according to a series of precise ratios, or experiment with making sounds over regular intervals of time. Don’t worry too much about thinking about your intentions; remember, it’s all vibes!

Originally posted to LinkedIn