The State of Vibe Coding 2025 - Key Takeaways
The @v0 by Vercel team recently dug into industry trends to publish the first State of Vibe Coding report.
My key takeaways:
Everyone can build: 63% of vibe coding users are non-developers, generating UIs (44%), full-stack apps (20%), and personal software (11%).
Adoption is everywhere, with significant adoption rates in APAC (40.7%), Europe (18.1%), North America (13.9%), and LATAM (13.8%).
92% of US developers use AI coding tools every day
30% of new code at @Google is generated by AI
25% of @Y Combinator startups rely on AI-generated code
Rapid expansion has a cost. Vibe coding apps keep hitting vulnerabilities: exposing secrets, access misconfigurations, hardcoded credentials.
The future: going mainstream or hitting its sweet spot in working MVPs, the vibe coding trend is here to stay, and it's happening now.
See full report here - Any results that struck you?
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Alai
Really interesting data points! As an outsider, I feel like there's a convergence happening where all the AI builders are trying to own the full stack. What do you think will eventually become the moat? Also, why do you think the adoption is so high in APAC vs NA?
Humans in the Loop
According to the report, the adoption rate in APAC (40.7%) is driven primarily by India. There's a massive developer community that embraced AI coding tools, benefiting from strong English proficiency and an entrepreneurial tech culture. India leads in overall vibe coding adoption, accounting for 16.7% of all users.
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@krishna_gupta51 India has a very big developer community, obviously Vibe coding will get more popular.
Humans in the Loop
Yes, and it's growing fast!
According to @GitHub, India has the fastest growing developer community, and based on current growth rates, will overtake the United States as the largest developer community by 2027.
Source: The State of the Octoverse 2023 ↗︎
44% of non-devs are generating UIs with AI? I have not found yet a tool that could generate a prod-quality UI, especially for mobile apps, and even for MVP. If anyone has a better experience, would appreciate the tip!
Humans in the Loop
@steffanb any experience with @v0 by Vercel? Their community templates look really polished to me, with strong @shadcn/ui vibes. I might be biased tho. really curious to have your $.02 here.
@fmerian Thanks man, templates are quite useful indeed. When I need to create unique design for my product though, I'll still need to go through templates , choose one and then feed it to AI to adjust/polish it, which it longer then just prompting and getting result. It seems that with a nice prompt it should be possible to reach a reasonably good design, but sometimes turns out to be an illusion. I should definitely get better at prompting or lower my expectations.. the latter I don't want to :)
Cal ID
The non-dev adoption stat is wild but not surprising to be honest.
Vibe coding is unlocking creativity for everyone, but security holes are the biggest risk right now.
Tried out v0 by Vercel’s templates, great for speed, but I always review AI code before deploying.
I think there is a gap between MVP development and going mainstream.
Humans in the Loop
Exactly. The potential of vibe coding is growing every day, and security is a key challenge.
To quote @madelinelawren from @Aikido Security:
Deckless
As a developer, knowing that 63% of vibe coders are non-developers kinda scares me!
Humans in the Loop
@darrenk haha what's the scariest from your perspective?
What really raises questions for me is the place of junior developers in the market. AI is starting to compete with young engineers, so what about the renewal of experienced engineers in 10 to 20 years?
Humans in the Loop
Good question. From my perspective, AI won't replace developers. The role will evolve. We won't write lines of code, we'll think architecture, orchestrating and reviewing AI-generated code.
As a " Vibe Coder " and Zero coding experience, I thrive for Performance and Perfection. Im not sloppy with my code or projects, I have developed over 50 apps All by myself and of course Gemini Pro. If a person has the drive and ambition, why not give people like me a chance at being a Developer if major Corporations are Vibe Coding anyway using AI'S to develop for them anyway. Train Us and give us the means without the jealousy or envy that might come with it. Not all of us have the funds or family backing us up for College or Coding Boot camps.
Humans in the Loop
@lordzerox3 impressive! keep it up, Martin
Debug agents, AI auditors, “Bugbot” style tools are emerging. Cursor, for example, released a debugging add-on to help catch AI-introduced errors.
The winners will be those making the “vibe stack” safe, not just fast.
Humans in the Loop
@ahsanhabibakik spot on! To quote the report:
Take @v0 by Vercel for example. Last month, it blocked 17,000 insecure deploys. To understand it better, their team wrote about it in this blog post.
Triforce Todos
The trend is unstoppable, but I hope security and best practices scale alongside adoption.
Humans in the Loop
you're spot on re: security. when @Aikido Security launched, @madelinelawren put it eloquently:
Thanks for sharing this very relevant trend. Adding to the trend from two informed perspectives:
Andrej Karpathy coined the phrase vibe coding. His recent experiences with vibe coding are nearer to truth coming both from an AI scientist of repute as well as someone who codes thousands of lines of fairly complex code in public. Check out nanogpt on his YouTube channel where he builds an LLM from scratch. His key takeaways lean on vibe coding requiring high touch engineering-in-loop. Check out his latest tweets on X or recent podcast with Dwarkesh Patel where he touches on the topic.
At Navam we are vibe coding several non-trivial white label products across multiple AI stacks, models, and frameworks running up 177K lines of working production-ready code and months of tuning our workflow with frontier models. We are building these products in the open source and sharing our experience with various tools and techniques so other indie developers and startups can benefit. Despite several years of human coding experience we do not see ourselves going back to coding without AI. However, with current state of the art, it is more science than art to vibe code!
Thanks for sharing, very interesting breakdowns!
Feels low to me, honestly 😅
Humans in the Loop
True! For context, source: this conversation with @snowmaker posted on YouTube 7 months ago about the W25 batch. This might have changed (significantly) over time.