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The State of Vibe Coding 2025 - Key Takeaways

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The @v0 by Vercel team recently dug into industry trends to publish the first State of Vibe Coding report.

My key takeaways:

  1. Everyone can build: 63% of vibe coding users are non-developers, generating UIs (44%), full-stack apps (20%), and personal software (11%).

  2. Adoption is everywhere, with significant adoption rates in APAC (40.7%), Europe (18.1%), North America (13.9%), and LATAM (13.8%).

  3. 92% of US developers use AI coding tools every day

  4. 30% of new code at @Google is generated by AI

  5. 25% of @Y Combinator startups rely on AI-generated code

  6. Rapid expansion has a cost. Vibe coding apps keep hitting vulnerabilities: exposing secrets, access misconfigurations, hardcoded credentials.

  7. 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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Ning Dong

Thanks for sharing, very interesting breakdowns!

25% of @Y Combinator startups rely on AI-generated code

Feels low to me, honestly 😅

fmerian

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.

Phil Calan

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.

fmerian

You're spot on. Take @v0 by Vercel for example. Last month, it blocked 17,000 insecure deploys.

To quote the report:

If we can solve the security challenge, what comes next is remarkable.

Pathange Balaji Rao

Great summarisation @fmerian .

Here are my Top 4 inferences and opportunity gaps for builders -

  1. For everyone to build (including 63% non developers) apps that are actually meaningfully useful tools/products - Full stack solutions with environment variables management, database, hosting, deployment, version control, SEO optimisation and many more attachments are required

  2. Adoption is everywhere but is the repeat usage enough to get someone fully equipped to really build meaningful solutions

  3. How to balance quality of generation and moderation of usage (in organisations) for quality of professional work are two things need attention

  4. Integrating existing codebase with vibe coding to continuing from where the codebase is currently at is a major opportunity

Prithvi Damera

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.

Tim Allison

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'.

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