Apart from every software engineer I know building almost completely with AI now there have been numerous projects posted on HN that are AI coded.
There's also Claude desktop which is famously all AI built and very widely used.
Yes, all of which are toy projects and get criticized every time they are posted. On actual serious projects, not someones pet home project, I've only seen "vibe coding" used in very low risk places like small UI components. And even then they are generally heavily tweaked after the fact.
My anecdotal personal experience seem to agree with the general sentiment I see here on HN. Some people or companies do it, but with generally heavy criticism.
- that you don't know most people in the world
- that some of the people you know are using these tools because they were forced
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Of course.
To be clear, the claim was "all software is still built by humans coding"
I know this all software claim is false because I've seen it. Proof by example.
> that some of the people you know are using these tools because they were forced
Irrelevant to that claim.
Even the creator of Claude code agrees with the sentiment that you can’t vibe code production software. [1]
1 https://www.businessinsider.com/claude-code-creator-vibe-cod...
By late December he said: "100% of my contributions to Claude Code were written by Claude Code"[1]. That's production software shipping to millions of people.
Antirez's Dwarfstar is also mostly AI written:
> This software is developed with strong assistance from GPT 5.5, 5.6, Claude Fable and with humans leading the ideas, testing, and debugging. We say this openly because it shaped how the project was built. If you are not happy with AI-developed code, this software is not for you. [2]
I'm actually pretty shocked anyone would claim otherwise. In January 2026, sure, but the world has changed since then. Many, many places are doing 100% AI code now, and yes for production code. https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-writing-all-startup-code-...