Authors: Philipp Eibl, Sadra Sabouri, Souti Chattopadhyay Venue: IEEE Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 2025 — accepted August 2025
Summary
A study of “vibe-coding”: building software by prompting an LLM over and over instead of writing the code yourself. It draws on 16 developers using project-level AI tools comparable to Cursor, and maps the pain points and the opportunities of working that way.
The interesting part is that the borders between having the idea, writing it, and debugging it stop existing — ideation, implementation, and debugging collapse into a single activity rather than three phases handed off between each other. That collapse is what might make building software a more collaborative thing than it has been.
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Thread: Human-AI Interaction in Knowledge Work — the research thread. Cognitive Biases in LLM-Assisted Software Development — parallel study on the same population.