"Bob McGrew, the former chief research officer at OpenAI, said professional software engineers are not going to lose their jobs to vibe coding just yet.
McGrew, who left OpenAI in November, said on the latest episode of Sequoia Capital's "Training Data" podcast that product managers can make "really cool prototypes" with vibe coding. But human engineers will still be brought in to "rewrite it from scratch."
"If you are given a code base that you don't understand — this is a classic software engineering question — is that a liability or is it an asset? Right? And the classic answer is that it's a liability," McGrew said of software made with vibe coding.
"You have to maintain this thing. You don't know how it works, no one knows how it works. That's terrible," he continued.
McGrew said that in the next one or two years, coding will be done by a mix of human engineers working with AI tools like Cursor and AI agents like Devin working in the background.
He added that while the liability that comes with using agents to code has gone down, it is "still, net, a liability.""
https://www.businessinsider.com/vibe-coding-wont-replace-software-engineers-openai-research-bob-mcgrew-2025-6