
Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond
by Gene Kim
7 popular highlights from this book
Key Insights & Memorable Quotes
Below are the most popular and impactful highlights and quotes from Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond:
“However, AI could soon think like you: understand your explicit instructions, but also your coding philosophy, project context, and long-term intentions and goals.”
“Sometimes it’s awful, sometimes it’s close but not quite there, and sometimes it blows your socks off. Each of the good payouts delivers a tiny hit of dopamine, a neurochemical reward that makes us feel good and encourages us to pull the lever again.”
“Your judgement and experience is are more important than ever. AI can be wrong.”
“Delegation of implementation doesn’t mean delegation of responsibility. Your users, colleagues, and leadership don’t (or shouldn’t) care which parts were written by AI—they rightfully expect you to stand behind every line of code. When something breaks in production at 2 a.m., no one wants to hear, “Well, AI wrote that part.” You own the final result, period. This is both liberating and challenging.”
“remote procedure call (neither JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP or WebSocket,”
“We believe AI will gain our trust as it gains more long-term memory, which will presumably make it better at following our sometimes vague orders.”
“Despite AIs seeming confusingly human-like, they’re nevertheless capable of superhuman amounts”


