AI-Assisted Coding Is The Vibe Trend In 2025

This is an incredibly fundamental shift that we’re not talking enough about

The ongoing AI developer tooling shift is quietly dismantling coding as we know it.

As Andrej Karpathy recently put it:

“There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding"”

Think about it: instead of spending hours writing boilerplate or debugging syntax, developers are increasingly relying on AI tools like GitHub Copilot, Replit AI, CodeWhisperer, or Cursor to handle the heavy lifting.

Typing something like “build a REST API with Flask and SQLite that supports authentication” into an AI assistant is rapidly becoming the norm.

This shift has massive implications for software teams, CTOs, and engineering orgs:

✅ Traditional coding is no longer enough

✅ The role of the developer is shifting from coder to problem architect

✅ The AI does the scaffolding work now, not the engineer

✅ Teams must now optimize their workflows for AI pair programming, not manual methods

As developers like Swyx and Shawn Wang have noted, AIC (AI-Integrated Coding) will become the new baseline for software development.

Some early signs:

➡️ GitHub Copilot is already used in 46%+ of code commits in some companies (GitHub Next)

➡️ Replit’s Ghostwriter tool is reducing time-to-deploy by up to 60% for junior devs

➡️ Startups like Sweep.dev and Cursor are emerging just to co-develop with LLMs

As Guillermo Rauch put it:

1️⃣ AI will do the heavy lifting in code generation

2️⃣ The IDE is becoming an AI-native co-pilot space

3️⃣ Developers must master prompting, review, and system design, not just syntax

We’re at the start of a major shift in software creation, engineering workflows, and developer productivity.

E.g., even enterprise teams at places like Shopify, Dropbox, and Instacart are already rearchitecting workflows around AI-native dev tooling.

And yes, AI isn’t perfect, but it’s already too productive to ignore.

Manual-first coding is dead. Long live AI-assisted development.