The State of Vibe Coding 2025 - Key Takeaways
The @v0 by Vercel team recently dug into industry trends to publish the first State of Vibe Coding report.
My key takeaways:
Everyone can build: 63% of vibe coding users are non-developers, generating UIs (44%), full-stack apps (20%), and personal software (11%).
Adoption is everywhere, with significant adoption rates in APAC (40.7%), Europe (18.1%), North America (13.9%), and LATAM (13.8%).
92% of US developers use AI coding tools every day
30% of new code at @Google is generated by AI
25% of @Y Combinator startups rely on AI-generated code
Rapid expansion has a cost. Vibe coding apps keep hitting vulnerabilities: exposing secrets, access misconfigurations, hardcoded credentials.
The future: going mainstream or hitting its sweet spot in working MVPs, the vibe coding trend is here to stay, and it's happening now.
See full report here - Any results that struck you?
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Thanks for sharing, very interesting breakdowns!
Feels low to me, honestly 😅
Humans in the Loop
True! For context, source: this conversation with @snowmaker posted on YouTube 7 months ago about the W25 batch. This might have changed (significantly) over time.
Crazy that 63% of users aren’t devs 😯, but also a bit scary with all those security slip-ups. The tools are moving faster than the guardrails.
We’re definitely heading toward a world where everyone can build; now we just need ways to keep it safe.
Humans in the Loop
You're spot on. Take @v0 by Vercel for example. Last month, it blocked 17,000 insecure deploys.
To quote the report:
The global adoption stats are impressive—especially that 63% of vibe coders aren’t professional developers. Also, 30% of new code at Google being AI-generated really shows how mainstream this is becoming. The security risks are a big red flag, though—vibe coding needs better defaults to avoid leaks.
I think we are right on the edge of Vibe coding becoming the norm. I work at a large company and we did a POC using some code I Vibe'd and giving it to a dev. We need just a few things before that is our process going forward:
1) Legal and security to let us do this. Not an if but when
2) The ability for our Vibe tools to connect to our current libraries. Repit has this cooking and I saw a demo.
We have been waiting for this moment since Dreamweaver let us down.
Hot100.ai
Hey @fmerian , enjoying the thread and thanks for sharing that report, really enjoying the data (and nicely designed ') Last week I launched @Hot100.ai here and have been starting to compile some data analysis from our base (I'll pop that here also) Currently have +450 Vibe Coded projects in there and starting to see some patterns and story about tooling, trend and purpose. I'm seeing some similarity in the location data set across ours and V0 was a tool that I highlight in the 'Golden Stack'.