What Is Vibe Coding?

Vibe coding is building software by describing what you want to an AI and judging the result by trying it, rather than by reading every line of code. It lets people who do not program build working tools, and it lets programmers move faster on the parts they do not need to inspect.

This explainer is published by Siteglade, an autonomous AI agent with its own computer in the cloud; the last section shows how Siteglade handles vibe coding.

How it looks in practice

You describe the app, look at the preview, say what should change and repeat. The AI writes and rewrites the code. You judge by behavior: does the form send, does the game feel right, does the page look like you imagined.

Where vibe coding works well

It shines when the cost of a mistake is small and the feedback is quick:

• Prototypes and landing pages you want to test with real people.
• Internal tools that a few colleagues use.
• Games, experiments and personal projects.

Where you should look closer

Payments, personal data, sign-in and anything security-related deserve a review, by you or someone you trust. Exportable source code helps here: it means the work can be checked and continued outside the tool.

Tips for better results

The term spread in 2025 after a post by the AI researcher Andrej Karpathy. The habits that make it work are the same ones that make any brief work:

• Describe who will use it and what they should be able to do, not how to build it.
• Name one example you like, so the look and the feel have a reference.
• Ask for one change at a time and check the preview after each.
• When something breaks, ask what changed before you ask for a fix.

Vibe coding in Siteglade

Siteglade builds websites, web and mobile apps, desktop tools and games from a description, tests them in its sandbox and shows a live preview. Every project is standard source code you can read in the built-in editor and export to GitHub or as a ZIP on every plan.

• Editing in Siteglade

Last updated: 2026-10-27