Claude Code for 'vibe coding'?
2025-03-20
Claude Code seems to be the next step for ‘vibe coding’
Steve Yegge, a programmer known for some interesting perspecitves on technology1 and some strong opinions on programming languages2 has many positive things to say about Anthropic’s new Claude Code tool; bottom line:
I’ve been using Claude Code for a couple of days, and it has been absolutely ruthless in chewing through legacy bugs in my gnarly old code base. It’s like a wood chipper fueled by dollars.
If a hard-nosed veteran like Steve Yegge is sold on this, it’s really worth a look.
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For example, back in 2011 he wrote an interesting memo on Google vs. Amazon company culture and large-scale software architecture, which was originally published on Google+, so the original post is not available anymore. ↩
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His 2006 rant on Java is one of my favorites. What can I say: I do like Java and use it extensively (because of the ecosystem, the tooling, and the JVM), but he’s not wrong 😅 (recent Java versions addressed some of his criticisms, but functions are still no ‘first-class citizens’, e.g. definable outside of types, and this probably won’t change anytime soon). ↩
