“Learn to make a code.”

Over the years, the three words functioned as a steno to survive the economy full of creative destruction and the interruption of the work market that accompanied it. Software engineering, we are told, it’s here to remain – a island of stability in the ocean of change.

Then AI’s age came. It turns out that the Large Language Model (LLM) has talent not only for writing blogs and articles, but also codes. This has made many programmers face what feels like the existential crisis – where they go from here, and what does it mean to build software when you are not the code?

Enter the “coding vibration.”

New way of thinking about what it means to build software

What exactly is “vibration coding”? While specific definitions vary, generally refer to the developer process where humans work with low partners or without code to build software. In theory, utilizing AI to write manually code must free humans to focus more on creative work that enters the development of software. They can continue to perfect their vision for what to use software for AI.

What does this mean for the future of software engineering as an unclear profession. Some skeptics of vibration coding become dominant. Others argue that this is a paradigm change for the field. Others landed somewhere between: humans who coded manually carved the niche of “craft code”, but most of what is out there will soon become “vibeware.”

One thing, however, is clear: although the mechanism of software development may change, the basis of what makes good software does not. If there is, they are even more important.

No matter how it is written, the software must focus on the user manically

Long before the emergence of vibration coding, the software company faces problems: the software they make does not provide the value they think. Far in 2019, Pendo found that 80% of features in software products were rare or never used. The feature is not used because they are not in harmony with what the user wants and needs.

With AI assistant set to make software easier and faster to be built than before, this problem will be much worse. How can we avoid the world where the software is abundant, but no one meets its promise?

Software that is built on the basis of user data – both quantitative and qualitative – become a product that user likes. The Pendo Software Experience Management Platform is to help you determine the foundation – and build it.

Release the strength of the pendo platform to understand your users

Everything starts with understanding the behavior and sentiment of the user. Pendo Analytics gives you a full view of how users behave in your software today – so you can build a better experience for them tomorrow. With insights about everything from the adoption of features to friction points, developers can work with their colleagues in product and product operations to ensure what they make in line with what the user wants.

The Dev team can then work across functions to combine the behavior data with qualitative feedback from the user. Is that a poll in the application and survey of user experience, or request about what to be built next, Pendo Listen gave the AI’s insight team from the full spectrum of the user feedback about what functions, what is not, and how to compile and validate their software road maps. The result? Final products that provide users – and business.

How to stand out in a changed software landscape

“The hottest new programming language is English,” explained Andrej Karpathy, an AI expert who created the term “vibration coding.” That is, the quality of programming will be increasingly determined by the developer of AIS agent. But with this great new power this is a big responsibility. The rate of software development will increase exponentially, and traditional obstacles for that will fall. If they want to win in the market, companies need to build their products with a crazy focus on users from the beginning to the end – and the mission of the pendo is to help them do that.

Want to learn more about how Pendo helps you build better software, faster? Get a demo today.