AI coding tools will make vibe code output a thing of the past

14 May 2025

Mark Sullivan, writing for Fast Company:

Google DeepMind research scientist Nikolay Savinov said in a recent interview that AI coding tools will soon support 10 million-token context windows — and eventually, 100 million. With that kind of memory, an AI tool could absorb vast amounts of human instruction and even analyze an entire company’s existing codebase for guidance on how to build and optimize new systems.

When a developer uses an AI technology to produce some code, but has no regard for the quality of the generated code, there you have vibe coding.

It might be bad code of the worst sort, but who cares? Not that particular developer. Future coding tools however will eventually — one day — be so proficient that all the code they create will be top notch. Bad code, and vibe coding, will be a thing of the past.

Or will it? The super-duper code these super-duper AI tools generate will be so good, no one will need to worry about its quality any more. That will be vibe coding, but an entirely different form of vibe coding. If you enjoyed the joke, you can start laughing now.