Some call it “vibe-coding” because it encourages an AI coding assistant to do the grunt work as human software developers work through big ideas. “The essence of it is you’re no longer in the nitty-gritty syntax,” said Cat Wu, project manager of Anthropic’s Claude Code. “It’s been a really volatile time at Windsurf,” Wang wrote to employees in July as he announced the merger with Cognition, maker of the AI coding assistant Devin. Walsh said Gartner’s position is that AI will not replace software engineers and will actually require more. Stanford researchers also found that AI tools by 2024 were able to solve nearly 72% of coding problems, up from just over 4% a year earlier.