Beyond Vibe Coding: From Coder to AI-Era Developer

by Addy Osmani

AI is transforming software development, shifting programmers from writing code to collaborating with AI in an intent-driven workflow. Vibe coding—a prompt-first, exploratory approach where you describe what you want in natural language and let a large language model fill in the blanks—represents a radical shift in the developer's role from writing code to directing it. However, vibe coding comes with a serious Like a high-speed exploratory vehicle, it can take you off the beaten path quickly. Beyond Vibe From Coder to AI-Era Developer explores how AI-powered coding assistants like GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex are reshaping the way we build software, from automating routine coding tasks to influencing architecture and design decisions.

Written by Addy Osmani, this guide provides developers, tech leads, and organizations with practical strategies to integrate AI into their workflows effectively. Learn how to formulate clear goals and constraints for the AI, review AI-generated code critically, and integrate those pieces into a coherent whole. Whether you're adopting AI tools today or preparing for the future of software engineering, this book offers insights and hands-on examples to keep your skills sharp in this evolving landscape.

Genres: Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Technology, Software

252 pages, Paperback

Published September 23, 2025

About the author

Addy Osmani is a Senior Staff Engineering Manager working on Google Chrome. He leads up teams focused on making the web fast and low-friction to build on for developers. Addy has authored a number of books and has spoken at conferences around the world.

Reviews

[Ferhat Elmas · Rating 1 out of 5]

It's pure riding the wave, not much material on top of his blog posts (I read early release so could change a bit later on but I don't expect drastic shift according to what I saw). It's wrongly mixing AI-assisted coding with vibe coding. On top, I can't really guess who the target is because nothing useful for the experienced and especially confusing for juniors. Use the tools but skip the book.

[Rauno Villberg · Rating 3 out of 5]

The very core of the content here is good, actionable advice and matches up with my experience.
But there's a lot of repetition, fluff and content that's may or may not be relevant to you.
Coming from a native Android & iOS stack viewpoint: there's quite a lot of web-specific stuff here that, while interesting to know about, isn't all that useful.
There's also a surprising amount of time spent on specific tools, which seems like it will get outdated quick. Which, hey, makes it quickly actionable if you read it right now, but in a few years? Likely will need a new edition.

A bit painful to say this but you'd be better served reading the author's blog posts and the discussion on Book Overflow (which is where I heard of it first)
I can't hate on the man too much, gotta earn a living! This feels like a case of expanding on a few great blog posts and adding a whole bunch of filler.

A generous three stars.

[Paul Duplys · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you want to learn what vibe coding is and what you should expect beyond vibe coding, this book is a good read. However, if you are looking for a hands-on, practical advice how to use AI tools in specific situations, the book offers just a small fraction of what you can find in write-ups, tutorials, and blog posts on the web.

[Mikhail Filatov · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is a Frankenstein of many posts/articles from the author. In a few places he even forgot to replace “in this article”.
It results in a lot of duplication of the thesis “vibe coding is different from AI-assisted programming”, “consider AI a junior developer”, “test everything”…ad nauseam.
He almost ignores hallucinations and provided just a couple anecdotal examples (a few paragraphs each) for some real projects.
Overall, he is either on a too high level of abstraction-mostly process or goes straight to some strange details “AI can suggest some wrong HTML tags”.