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Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping software engineering by enabling "vibe coding," in which developers build software primarily through prompts rather than writing code. Although widely publicized as a productivity breakthrough,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yi-Hung Chou , Boyuan Jiang , Yi Wen Chen , Mingyue Weng , Victoria Jackson , Thomas Zimmermann , James A. Jones

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) has catalyzed a paradigm shift from code generation assistance to autonomous coding agents, enabling a novel development methodology termed "Vibe Coding" where developers validate AI-generated…

This innovative practice article reports on the piloting of vibe coding (using natural language to create software applications with AI) for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) education. We developed a human-AI meta-languaging framework…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-12 David James Woo , Kai Guo , Yangyang Yu

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into software engineering education has driven the emergence of ``Vibe Coding,'' a paradigm where developers articulate high-level intent through natural language and delegate implementation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Aizierjiang Aiersilan

The democratization of Large Language Models has given rise to vibe coding, where novice programmers prioritize semantic intent over syntactic implementation. Without pedagogical guardrails, we argue this is fundamentally misaligned with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Sreecharan Sankaranarayanan

Vibe coding, the much-touted use of AI techniques for programming, faces two overwhelming obstacles: the difficulty of specifying goals ("prompt engineering" is a form of requirements engineering, one of the toughest disciplines of software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Bertrand Meyer

Live coding is a performance and creative technique based on improvised and interactive coding. Many recent endeavors have focused in live coding both because of aesthetics and as a way to alleviate performance drawbacks when the musical…

Code-generating tools are increasingly used in software development, yet experience reports on conversational "vibe coding" under production constraints remain limited. This paper presents an experience report from a small full-stack team…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Md Nasir Uddin Shuvo , Md Aidul Islam , Md Mahade Hasan , Muhammad Waseem , Pekka Abrahamsson

When software artifacts are generated by AI models ("vibe coding"), human engineers assume responsibility for validating them. Ideally, this validation would be done through the creation of a formal proof of correctness. However, this is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Logan Murphy , Aren A. Babikian , Marsha Chechik

As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) automates coding tasks and expands access to technical resources, this paper examines how GenAI-enabled coding automation, colloquially known as "vibecoding," affects digital entrepreneurial…

General Economics · Economics 2026-05-11 Ruiqing Cao , Abhishek Bhatia

Generative AI is reshaping higher education programming through vibe coding, where students collaborate with AI via natural language rather than writing code line-by-line. We conceptualize this practice as help-seeking, analyzing 19,418…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Daiana Rinja , Eduardo Araujo Oliveira , Sonsoles López-Pernas , Mohammed Saqr , Marcus Specht , Kamila Misiejuk

The emergence of large language models has enabled vibe coding, a natural language approach to programming in which users describe intent and AI generates or revises code, potentially broadening access to programming while preserving…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Ashley J. Chen , Yijia Cao , Minghao Shao , Ramesh Karri , Muhammad Shafique

Agentic AI coding systems can inspect repositories, plan implementation steps, edit files, call tools, run tests, and submit pull requests. These capabilities make software and hardware development faster in some settings, but current…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Christopher Koch

"Vibe coding" and "vibe analytics" have been framed as a democratization of technical capability. This paper argues that AI-assisted methodology more broadly, or what I call "vibe methodology," also democratizes the failure modes specific…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-05-11 Lydia Ashton

Many software development platforms now support LLM-driven programming, or "vibe coding", a technique that allows one to specify programs in natural language and iterate from observed behavior, all without directly editing source code.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Sverrir Thorgeirsson , Theo B. Weidmann , Zhendong Su

Software reliability is critical in ensuring that the digital systems we depend on function correctly. In software development, increasing software reliability often involves testing. However, for complex and critical systems, developers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Francisco Oliveira , Alexandra Mendes , Carolina Carreira

Vibe coding inherently assumes iterative refinement of LLM-generated code through feedback loops. While effective for conventional software tasks, its reliability in runtime-adaptive systems is unclear -- especially when generated code is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Michal Töpfer , František Plášil , Tomáš Bureš , Petr Hnětynka

Large language models are reshaping programming by enabling 'vibe coding': the development of softwares through natural-language interaction with model-driven toolchains. This article argues that vibe coding is best understood as interface…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Hongrui Jin

Generative AI is accelerating software development, but may quietly shift where the most significant risks lie. As AI generates code faster than teams can understand it, two under appreciated forms of debt accumulate: cognitive debt, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Margaret-Anne Storey

Visual Programming (VP) has emerged as a powerful framework for Visual Question Answering (VQA). By generating and executing bespoke code for each question, these methods demonstrate impressive compositional and reasoning capabilities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Jiaxin Ge , Sanjay Subramanian , Baifeng Shi , Roei Herzig , Trevor Darrell