Two new books have been announced that, embarrassingly for the authors and publishers, fail spectacularly to understand what the term "vibe coding" means.
The whole POINT of vibe coding is that you don't need to be a software engineer to do it.
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/1/not-vibe-coding/
Simon Willison
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