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The AI Revolution in Development: How Vibe Coding is Changing the Game

April 22, 2025 By Rob Vugts Read on LinkedIn
AI Revolution in Development

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Over the past months, I've been diving deep into vibe coding—a revolutionary approach to coding where AI takes the lead, and developers focus on guiding, testing, and refining. This isn't just about having an AI assistant suggest code snippets. It's about letting AI handle the full development workflow, while we steer the project, set the direction, and focus on big-picture architecture and strategy.

My current setup is a blend of cutting-edge tools: Cursor (an AI-powered fork of Visual Studio Code), paired with Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude Sonnet 3.7, GPT-4o and other agents—all running in "YOLO mode." The results have been nothing short of astonishing.

With this setup, I've delivered a comprehensive Azure Cloud management solution in a matter of weeks, and a feature-rich iPhone app for managing my Domoticz home automation system in just five days—the latter even without writing a single line of code myself!

To give you an idea of the breadth and depth of what I was able to deliver with AI assistance:

Cloud Management Solution

  • Azure Policies and policy remediation runbooks to enforce standardized resource tagging and ensure centralized collection of performance and uptime metrics for all virtual machines.
  • Automated scripts to schedule server shutdowns and startups, slashing cloud costs by powering down non-critical resources during off-hours.
  • Terraform scripts for reliable, repeatable infrastructure provisioning.
  • A Python backend that aggregates metrics and cost data from all cloud servers, generating actionable rightsizing recommendations.
  • A sleek, Bootstrap-based web UI for reviewing insights and applying optimizations with one click.

iOS Application

In just five days, I generated a complete mobile interface for my home automation system with the help of AI. Features include:

  • Full device management: toggle switches, control dimmers, activate scenes, and view real-time device status.
  • Interactive graphs for temperature sensors, power usage, and gas consumption.
  • Geofencing support to trigger actions based on location (e.g., enable security system when leaving home, disable it upon return).
  • Snapshot functionality for home security cameras.
  • Customizable home screen widgets for instant access to key devices.

The Game-Changer

I've generated thousands of lines of code in a matter of days—with minimal manual input. Tasks that typically take weeks or even months were completed rapidly, spanning a variety of languages including Swift, Python, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, PowerShell, and Terraform HCL.

The increase in productivity has been incredible!

Cursor and its integrated AI agents manage the entire software lifecycle: generating and debugging code, writing documentation, solving browser errors, committing changes to GitHub, deploying solutions, and continuously iterating. They even conduct autonomous trial-and-error cycles, just like an experienced developer.

This means I get to focus on what truly matters: architecture, functionality, and solving real-world problems.

What Makes This Possible?

  • Gemini 2.5 Pro: Google's latest AI, optimized for advanced reasoning and programming, generates complex code, reviews and refactors, debugs, and explains—all with the precision of a tireless expert.
  • Cursor Editor: More than a text editor, Cursor is a full-stack development partner. It generates code, tests, documentation, deployment scripts, and offers context-aware suggestions, reducing boilerplate and boosting value.
  • YOLO Mode: This high-autonomy setting lets AI take bold initiative—building, deploying, testing, and resolving issues with minimal oversight. It's like having a teammate who never sleeps.
  • GitHub Model Context Protocol (MCP): AI and version control, seamlessly integrated. Commit messages, branch management, and conflict resolution are all handled with simple prompts.
  • BrowserTools MCP: Brings AI into the browser for automated API testing, web scraping and real-time debugging of console logs, network traffic, and DOM elements.

Why This Matters

This isn't just a productivity boost—it's a fundamental shift in how we build software. Tedious coding tasks are replaced by high-impact decision-making. Code quality improves, job satisfaction rises, and speed increases. Beautiful, robust UIs, backends and documentation can be delivered in days or weeks, not months.

The Future of Software Development

Vibe coding is not a trend, it's the next era of development—boosting productivity while making development more creative and fulfilling. It's not about replacing developers; it's about empowering them. Developers who embrace it will have a massive edge. Those who don't may struggle to keep up.

In my next role, I'm eager to contribute by helping companies adopt (or even extend) these smart tools and revolutionize their development processes. The future of coding is here—and it's all about working smarter, not harder. Are you ready to vibe?

Learn More

I also highly recommend subscribing to the BUILD ANYTHING! playlist from David Ondrej on YouTube where all these tools and concepts are covered in great detail.