TDS Newsletter: Vibe Coding Is Great. Until It’s Not.

"Vibe coding," the practice of using LLM-based tools for development, faces criticism due to unrealistic expectations despite its value for rapid prototyping. Problems often begin when practitioners treat AI-generated code as inherently robust and error-free without proper verification. The content explores these nuances by highlighting articles on the benefits and pitfalls of AI code assistants like Cursor and Claude Code. It also curates other popular pieces on topics such as recursive language models, causal machine learning, and optimizing vector search.