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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…

Programming is essential to modern scientific research, yet most scientists report inadequate training for the software development their work demands. Generative AI tools capable of code generation may support scientific programmers, but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Gabrielle O'Brien , Alexis Parker , Nasir Eisty , Jeffrey Carver

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

This paper investigates the factors influencing programmers' adoption of AI-generated JavaScript code recommendations within the context of lightweight, function-level programming tasks. It extends prior research by (1) utilizing objective…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Changwen Li , Christoph Treude , Ofir Turel

Large Language Models (LLMs) have catalyzed vibe coding, where users leverage LLMs to generate and iteratively refine code through natural language interactions until it passes their vibe check. Vibe check is tied to real-world human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ming Zhong , Xiang Zhou , Ting-Yun Chang , Qingze Wang , Nan Xu , Xiance Si , Dan Garrette , Shyam Upadhyay , Jeremiah Liu , Jiawei Han , Benoit Schillings , Jiao Sun

For the past decade, the trajectory of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been dominated by a model-centric paradigm driven by scaling laws. Despite significant leaps in visual fidelity, this approach has encountered a ``usability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Jiaheng Liu , Yuanxing Zhang , Shihao Li , Xinping Lei

Recent AI code assistants have significantly improved their ability to process more complex contexts and generate entire codebases based on a textual description, compared to the popular snippet-level generation. These codebase AI…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Philipp Eibl , Sadra Sabouri , Souti Chattopadhyay

The emergence of vibe coding, a paradigm where non-technical users instruct Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate executable codes via natural language, presents both significant opportunities and severe risks for the construction…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 S M Jamil Uddin

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

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

The rapid adoption of generative AI in software development has impacted the industry, yet its effects on developers with visual impairments remain largely unexplored. To address this gap, we used an Activity Theory framework to examine how…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Claudia Flores-Saviaga , Benjamin V. Hanrahan , Kashif Imteyaz , Steven Clarke , Saiph Savage

``Vibe coding'' -- the practice of developing software through iteratively conversing with a large language model (LLM) -- has exploded in popularity within the last year. However, developers report key limitations including the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jacqueline Mitchell , Yasser Shaaban

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

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

AI code generation tools have gained significant popularity among developers, who use them to assist in software development due to their capability to generate code. Existing studies mainly explored the quality, e.g., correctness and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Syed Mohammad Kashif , Peng Liang , Amjed Tahir

Early 2025 we ran a series of vibe coding challenges across four different student cohorts. The cohorts included 54 ICT students, 24 digital marketing students, and 7 journalism students at Fontys University of Applied Sciences…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Leon van Bokhorst , Koen Suilen

While revolutionary AI-powered code generation tools have been rising rapidly, we know little about how and how to help software developers form appropriate trust in those AI tools. Through a two-phase formative study, we investigate how…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Ruijia Cheng , Ruotong Wang , Thomas Zimmermann , Denae Ford

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

"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