Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu to Google CEO Sundar Pichai: Why top tech leaders are talking about rise of Vibe Coding

At the start of the decade, software engineering was a battle of attrition against semicolons and memory leaks. Today, the most valuable skill in Silicon Valley isn’t mastery of C++ or Rust — it’s the ability to hold a “vibe.” Vibe Coding is the practice of building complex software by describing high-level intentions to AI agents rather than writing manual lines of code. This term has moved from a niche hobbyist trend to the industry standard. It has effectively turned the keyboard into a conductor’s baton.