The A.I. Disruption Is Actually Here, and It’s Not Terrible |
The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived
Mr. Ford is an essayist and a technologist.
On weekday evenings, heading home on the subway from Union Square in New York City, I log into an A.I. tool from my phone, and write a prompt. “Look at the data in the files I just uploaded,” I tap. “Load it into a database, then make it searchable with a web interface.” Underground in the subway tunnels my internet connection drops, but when my train emerges onto the Manhattan Bridge, I get a few minutes to see all the work my coding agent has done, and if I type fast enough I can issue another prompt. By the time I get home to Brooklyn, my little project tends to be done: A website, a feature in a music app, a complex search tool or some tiny game.
This is called “vibe coding,” a term coined a year ago by the artificial intelligence expert Andrej Karpathy. To vibe code is to make........