本文探讨了AI编程（或称“氛围编程”）对软件工程领域的影响。OpenAI的Greg Brockman认为，AI正在接管编码中较为枯燥的部分，但同时也剥夺了工程师的乐趣。随着AI编程工具的普及，工程师和新手都在使用AI辅助编写代码，这改变了大型科技公司和风险投资对软件工程师的评估。然而，一些专家警告称，过度依赖AI编程可能导致责任问题，并降低经验丰富的开发人员的效率。文章还提到了AI编程对初创企业的影响，以及对工程师技能的新要求。

🤖 AI编程的兴起：AI编程，也被称为“氛围编程”，正在改变软件工程的格局，工程师们使用诸如Microsoft Copilot、Cursor和Windsurf等工具来编写代码、开发游戏，甚至从头开始构建网站。

🤔 工程师的担忧：OpenAI的Greg Brockman认为，AI编程正在接管编码中较为枯燥的部分，但同时也剥夺了工程师的乐趣，工程师们现在主要负责代码审查和部署，这“一点也不好玩”。

💡 行业影响与争议：Y Combinator的CEO Gary Tan表示，AI编程将改变初创企业格局，而Business Insider的报道指出，AI编程经验已成为许多公司招聘时的必备技能。然而，一些专家认为过度依赖AI编程可能会带来问题，如代码质量问题，甚至会降低经验丰富的开发人员的效率。

OpenAI's Greg Brockman said vibe coding leaves humans with less enjoyable parts of coding.Vibe coding, popularized by AI tools, is changing the software engineering landscape.Critics argue that vibe coding may create liability and slow down experienced developers.

OpenAI's cofounder said vibe coding has left human engineers to do quality control.

On an episode of Stripe's "Cheeky Pint" podcast uploaded last week, OpenAI's cofounder and president, Greg Brockman, said that AI coding will only get better. But until then, it's taking away some parts of software engineering that he said are enjoyable.

"What we're going to see is AIs taking more and more of the drudgery, more of this like pain, more of the parts that are not very fun for humans," Brockman said. He added, "So far, the vibe coding has actually taken a lot of code that is actually quite fun."

He said that the state of AI coding has left humans to review and deploy code, which is "not fun at all."

Brockman added that he is "hopeful" for progress in these other areas, to the point that we end up with a "full AI coworker" that could handle delegated tasks.

Changing engineering landscape

Using AI to write code, dubbed "vibe coding" by OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy, has skyrocketed this year. Engineers and novices alike are using tools like Microsoft's Copilot, Cursor, and Windsurf to write code, develop games, and even build websites from scratch.

Vibe coding has already started changing how much Big Tech and venture capital value people with software engineering expertise.

In March, Y Combinator's CEO, Gary Tan, said that vibe coding is set to transform the startup landscape. He said that what would've once taken "50 or 100" engineers to build can now be accomplished by a team of 10, "when they are fully vibe coders."

Earlier this month, Business Insider reported that AI coding is no longer a nice-to-have skill. Job listings from Visa, Reddit, DoorDash, and a slew of startups showed that the companies explicitly require vibe coding experience or familiarity with AI code generators like Cursor and Bolt.

Still, some in tech circles say leaning on it heavily is short-sighted and the job is being trivialized.

Bob McGrew, the former chief research officer at OpenAI, said that while product managers can make "really cool prototypes" with vibe coding, human engineers will still be brought in to "rewrite it from scratch."

"If you are given a code base that you don't understand — this is a classic software engineering question — is that a liability or is it an asset? Right? And the classic answer is that it's a liability," McGrew said of software made with vibe coding.

GitHub's CEO, Thomas Dohmke, said that vibe coding may also slow down experienced coders. On a podcast episode released last week, he said that a worst-case scenario is when a developer is forced to provide feedback in natural language when they already know how to do it in a programming language.

That would be "basically replacing something that I can do in three seconds with something that might potentially take three minutes or even longer," Dohmke said.