Vibe coding is shaping the future of software and app development. Vibe coding is a term introduced by Andrej Karpathy earlier this year. This concept involves giving prompts to a LLM to generate code and accepting further improvements without human examination, merely relying on the AI (Wikipedia, 2025).
Lovable is one of the no-code development tools that has significantly grown during the last year. In fact, it was launched in November of 2023 and has already surpassed $100 million in annual subscription revenue, becoming the fastest-growing software company in history (Martin, 2025).
As a non-technical person, I have already tried Lovable to build two app ideas I had in mind for pure entertainment. What impressed me the most when I first used Lovable was the speed in the entire app development process. This tool allowed me, without any technical knowledge, to work on my ideas without coding experience and with a surprisingly low learning curve. I didn’t expect to see the results in not even a few hours, but just a few minutes.
However, one of the main problems I experienced as I worked on improvements was debugging. I sometimes got stuck on issues related to logic and misunderstandings, and as I do not have any coding experience, I was not able to identify the cause to continue working on the project, wasting lots of credits and going in circles without further progression. There are other issues that also revolve around vibe coding, such as cybersecurity and data safety concerns.
From my perspective, at the moment no-code tools are just for entertainment, prototyping and building MVPs. With just these tools it is not possible to launch a full project yet. However, I am particularly curious about how no-code tools will democratize software development. From my perspective, even though in the future pure code may all be AI-generated, there is a key element that will always require human intervention: critical thinking. In your view, what is the future direction of software development, and how might AI and humans collaborate?
References
Martin, I. (2025, July 23). Vibe Coding Unicorn Lovable Is The Fastest Growing Software Startup Ever. Forbes. Retrieved September 15, 2025, from https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/07/23/vibe-coding-turned-this-swedish-ai-unicorn-into-the-fastest-growing-software-startup-ever/
Wikipedia. (2025, septiembre 15). Vibe coding. Wikipedia. Retrieved September 15, 2025, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding
