Vibe Coding: The Worst Idea of 2025 🚫
Dave Farley explains why vibe coding is a bad trend in software engineering and development in 2025.

Modern Software Engineering
211.3K views • Aug 13, 2025

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Vibe coding might sound trendy, but in this video Dave Farley explains why vibe coding is one of the worst ideas in software engineering and software development in 2025. Discover what vibe coding really is, why it fails in real-world projects, and how relying on AI coding tools without proper engineering practices can lead to disaster. If you care about writing better code, improving your programming skills, and avoiding costly mistakes, you need to hear this.
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TransFICC provides low-latency connectivity, automated trading workflows and e-trading systems for Fixed Income and Derivatives. TransFICC resolves the issue of market fragmentation by providing banks and asset managers with a unified low-latency, robust and scalable API, which provides connectivity to multiple trading venues while supporting numerous complex workflows across asset classes such as Rates and Credit Bonds, Repos, Mortgage-Backed Securities and Interest Rate Swaps ➡️ https://transficc.com
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📖 Dave’s Book "Modern Software Engineering" is available as paperback, or kindle here ➡️ https://amzn.to/3DwdwT3
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📖 The original, award-winning "Continuous Delivery" book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble ➡️ https://amzn.to/2WxRYmx
📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley
Paperback ➡️ https://amzn.to/3gIULlA
ebook version ➡️ https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines
📖 "The Software Developers’ Guidebook
Amazon ➡️ https://amzn.to/4f9ozFK
ebook version ➡️ https://leanpub.com/softwaredevelopersguidebook
NOTE: If you click on one of the Amazon Affiliate links and buy the book, Continuous Delivery Ltd. will get a small fee for the recommendation with NO increase in cost to you.
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#vibecoding #aicoding #aidevelopment #softwareengineering #softwaredevelopment #programming
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Aug 13, 2025
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