Artificial Intelligence, Development Approaches, Development Tools, Generative AI, Software Development

According to Sonar’s State of Code Developer Survey report for 2026, based on a survey of over 1,100 developers, 42% of committed code is now AI-assisted, and roughly 29% of it gets merged without manual review. Not “light review.” No review at all. The industry’s response has been predictable: more guardrails. Static analysis. Token linting….

In February 2025, AI developer Andrej Karpathy posted a tweet (or whatever they call them now on the site formerly known as Twitter) about what he called “vibe coding”: There’s a new kind of coding I call “vibe coding”, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even…