> Why couldn’t OpenAI vibe code their own Windsurf/Cursor competitor?
The obvious answer is that vibecoding does not work.
If it did, OpenAI wouldn't need to buy Windsurf
The obvious answer is that vibecoding does not work.
If it did, OpenAI wouldn't need to buy Windsurf
That said, the kinds of things I've been hearing as going wrong with vibe coding are all or mostly fixable. I would even go as far as to say they're manifestations of the same problems that make IDEs such clumsy tools for humans to use at the moment, which is why we're trying to foist all this annoyance of using them off onto AIs.
The biggest problem, THE problem in this space is that tools we use don't have the language to describe the logic -- the intent -- behind refactorings. If you've never captured the user's intent, you can't learn from it. The ability to capture that intent is absent all the way from the highest level UX right down the lowest level of serialization: the patch format
That's why I believe it's my tech they really need and not Windsurf's -- I'm working on capturing the intent top to bottom.
Recording how is not fruitful, unless the technique is good. In this case, the essence will be extracted, and it will become a checklist or a script.
If you have two itents producing conflicting patches, the merge intent that emerges is good because it brings empathy (understanding the message) and harmony (working code). And that’s why almost everyone says that the code itself doesn’t matter. Only the feature that it brings into play and the the mind that birth it do. It is a medium.
And a merge conflict is nice because it detects overlapping work and the fact that the concerned people should propably meet.
That’s the problem with this stuff. It’s all hearsay.
*the original definition of vibe coding involved using voice to dictate the prompts to AI, I prefer to type.
"Technology no worky. Therefore let's spend $3billion to buy one of the leading tools that already has a million users."
Did you even stop for 5 seconds to think about how completely nonsensical your comment is? The dev-cope is strong here... XD
Vibe coding is just people deeply invested in a deadend technology trying to hype it up.
And I say this as someone that does use AI to a limited capacity as a code assistant.