Exploring VS Code Insiders: Embracing Structured Vibe Coding for Sustainable Development

Get ready to dive into the world of 'Vibe Coding' where AI, creativity, and code come together in a high-energy presentation that will leave you wondering how you ever lived without it!

  • 1. The presentation is about "Vibes Coding" and its different aspects.
  • 2. The presenter suggests using VS Code Insiders, a pre-release version of VS Code, to follow along.
  • 3. VS Code Insiders has new features that are released twice a day and is available alongside the monthly released VS Code.
  • 4. The presentation will have many screenshotable slides to share with teams.
  • 5. The presenter acknowledges mixed feelings about "Vibes Coding" and aims to address its negative connotations.
  • 6. "YOLO Vibes" coding is about speed, instant gratification, creativity, and fast learning, not meant for production.
  • 7. "Structured Vibes" brings guard rails to coding practices, leading to more sustainable code in the end.
  • 8. "Spectriven Vibes" is where the idea of vibe coding scales up to large code bases with scale, reliability, and velocity.
  • 9. YOLO coding has its place in rapid prototyping and proof of concept.
  • 10. The presentation will showcase demos using a new VS Code window in Insiders mode.
  • 11. Auto-approving changes is one way to not care about the code with caveats.
  • 12. A built-in microphone button in VS Code allows chatting with AI without anything leaving your machine.
  • 13. The presenter demonstrates creating a water hydration tracking app in React using Material UI and Applelesque design principles, guided by Copilot.
  • 14. Using Cloudin 4 provides good UI for YOLO coding, with different models offering distinct styles.
  • 15. YOLO Toolbox is an agent mode with a new workspace flow that can trip you up if not careful.
  • 16. Voice dictation built into VS Code can help with context while working in agent mode.
  • 17. The presentation emphasizes embracing exponentials to build AI intuition and understanding its capabilities and limitations.
  • 18. User frameworks like React are essential for grounding and learning how to read documentation effectively.
  • 19. Structured Vibes involve using templates with consistent tech stacks, guidelines, and custom tools for reliability and consistency.
  • 20. Templates help bootstrap projects by providing a clear starting point for engineering teams.
  • 21. The presenter shows a template example from GitHub (digital-frontend-vibes-template) to demonstrate the concept.
  • 22. Chat modes, tools, system prompts, and agent modes can be defined in the GitHub folder chat modes.
  • 23. Workspace instructions, prompts, and GitHub instructions are essential for specific parts of the codebase.
  • 24. Regularly committing workable code is crucial to avoid issues when working with Vibes Coding.

Source: AI Engineer via YouTube

❓ What do you think? What is the role of "structured vibes" in your coding workflow, and how do you balance creativity with maintainability and scalability? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments!