Technological pioneer Andreas Ng says AI-assisted coding, or “vibe coding,” lowers the barrier to software development and gives professionals across all industries the tools to innovate faster than ever.
AI coding tools make software development accessible to everyone
Speaking at Snowflake’s Build conference on Monday, Ng emphasized that everyone from CEOs to marketers can benefit from coding skills combined with AI, Business Insider reported.
“The bar for coding is now lower than ever before,” says Ng.
He added: “People who code, whether they’re CEOs and marketers, recruiters, not just software engineers, will actually get more done than those who don’t.”
Vibe Coding helps build projects faster, cheaper and smarter
Ng, founder of Google Brain and professor at Stanford, encouraged people to use AI tools instead of manual coding.
“Don’t code by hand. Don’t do it the old way. Get AI to help you code,” he said.
He emphasized that AI-assisted coding allows projects to be completed faster, at a lower cost and with less technical expertise, making it easier to pursue passion projects.
Ng also noted that traditional computer science curricula are struggling to keep pace with AI, resulting in rising unemployment among new graduates.
“Even I can’t hire enough people who really know AI,” he added.
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AI coding and hardware innovations highlight the rapid progress in AI
Former Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) AI Director and OpenAI founding member Andrei Karpathy said artificial general intelligence was still years away, warning that large language models were still unreliable and that industry hype had created unrealistic expectations.
His views contrasted with OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altmanwhich predicted highly capable AI models by 2030.
In September, Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) unveiled the Rubin CPX GPU for AI workloads with massive context, delivering 7.5x more performance than previous systems when paired with Vera CPUs and Rubin GPUs.
Earlier this year, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said AI could handle almost all coding tasks within a year, although humans would still supervise design and operations.
Y Combinator reported heavy AI usage among its startups in winter 2025, with most code generated by large language models, while Altman encouraged students to master AI tools the way previous generations learned coding.
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