One of the hottest markets in the artificial intelligence industry is selling chatbots that write computer code.
Some call it “vibe-coding” because it encourages an AI coding assistant to do the grunt work as human software developers work through big ideas. Others dislike that term.
But there’s no question that these tools are transforming the job experience for many tech workers amid an intense rivalry between leading AI companies to make the best one.
“The essence of it is you’re no longer in the nitty-gritty syntax,” said Cat Wu, project manager of Anthropic’s Claude Code.
“You’re not looking at every single line of code. you’re more trying to communicate this higher-level goal of what you want to accomplish.”
Wu added, however, that “vibe-coding” is not a term she uses.
“We definitely want to make it very clear that the obligation, at the end of the day, is in the hands of the engineers.”
Anthropic launched the latest version of its flagship Claude chatbot on Monday, boasting that Claude Sonnet 4.5 will be the “world’s best” for coding and other complex tasks.
Large language models behind generative AI chatbots like Claude, ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini are capable of many things, from homework help to organising meal plans, but the “top use case” for most businesses has been in coding and software engineering, said Gartner analyst Philip walsh.“`html
