What vibe coding actually is

Vibe coding is building software by describing what you want to an AI model and steering the result, rather than typing every line yourself. That does not mean you stop thinking. It means the bottleneck moves. Instead of "how do I write this loop", the question becomes "is this the right thing to build, and is what came back actually correct". The three habits that separate people who ship from people who get stuck: 1. Work in small slices. Ask for one thing, check it, then ask for the next. A model given ten requirements at once will quietly drop three of them. 2. Read what you get back. You do not have to be able to write it from scratch, but you do have to be able to tell whether it does what you asked. 3. Keep a way to undo. Version control is not optional the moment you let something else edit your files.