Google CEO Sundar Pichai Is ‘Vibe Coding’ a Website for Fun

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai disclosed that he has been “vibe coding,” or utilizing AI to code for him by prompts, to construct a webpage.

Pichai mentioned on Wednesday at Bloomberg Tech in San Francisco that he had been experimenting with AI coding assistants Cursor and Replit, each of that are marketed as in a position to create code from textual content prompts, to construct a brand new webpage.

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“I’ve simply been messing round — both with Cursor or I vibe coded with Replit — making an attempt to construct a customized webpage with all of the sources of data I needed in a single place,” Pichai mentioned, per Business Insider.

^{Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs}

Pichai mentioned that he had “partially” accomplished the webpage, and that coding had “come a good distance” from its early days.

Vibe coding is a time period coined by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy. In a post on X in February, Karpathy described how AI instruments are getting ok that software program builders can “neglect that the code even exists.” As an alternative, they will ask for AI to code on their behalf and create a undertaking or internet app with out writing a line of code themselves.

There is a new form of coding I name “vibe coding”, the place you totally give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and neglect that the code even exists. It is attainable as a result of the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Additionally I simply speak to Composer with SuperWhisper…

— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) February 2, 2025

The rise of vibe coding has led AI coding assistants to blow up in recognition. One AI coding instrument, Cursor, grew to become the fastest-growing software program app to achieve $100 million in annual revenue in January. Virtually all of Cursor’s income comes from 360,000 individual subscribers, not huge enterprises. Nevertheless, that steadiness may change: As of earlier this week, Amazon is reportedly in talks to undertake Cursor for its workers.

One other coding instrument, Replit, says it has enabled customers to make more than two million apps in six months. The corporate has 34 million international customers as of November.

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Noncoders are utilizing vibe coding to convey their concepts to life. Lenard Flören, a 28-year-old artwork director with no prior coding expertise, advised NBC News final month that he used AI instruments to vibe code a personalised exercise monitoring app. Harvard College neuroscience scholar, Rishab Jain, 20, advised the outlet that he used Replit to vibe code an app that interprets historical texts into English. As an alternative of downloading another person’s app and paying a subscription price, “now you may simply make it,” Jain mentioned.

Widespread vibe coding instruments provide a free entry level into vibe coding, in addition to subscription plans. Replit has a free tier, a $20 a month core degree with expanded capabilities, resembling limitless non-public and public apps, and a $35 per person, monthly groups subscription. Cursor additionally has a free tier, a $20 monthly professional degree, and a $40 per person, monthly, enterprise subscription.

Regardless of the existence of vibe coding, Pichai nonetheless thinks that human software program engineers are crucial. At Bloomberg Tech on Wednesday, Pichai mentioned that Google will keep hiring human engineers and rising its engineering workforce “even into subsequent 12 months” as a result of an even bigger workforce “permits us to do extra.”

“I simply view this [AI] as making engineers dramatically extra productive,” he mentioned.

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