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Sundar Pichai is vibe coding. 'It feels so delightful to be a coder.' (www.businessinsider.com)

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Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, is doing something unexpected for one of the biggest names in tech: casually building web apps with AI coding assistants.

"I wish I could do more," Pichai said on Wednesday at Bloomberg Tech in San Francisco.

"I've just been messing around — either with Cursor or I vibe coded with Replit — trying to build a custom webpage with all the sources of information I wanted in one place. I could type a location and get it all," Pichai said.

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[-] [email protected] 47 points 3 weeks ago

In other news Katy Perry is an astronaut

[-] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago

Replace the CEO with AI

[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

We don't even need complex AI to replace CEOs

One ruby script can easily:

Lie to the public
Tell shareholders to buy more stock
Shift blame when a product horrifically disfigures someone
Lobby Congress
Lay off thousands of employees and take a fat bonus

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

That last one is why, have you ever tried getting a bank account in the name of a script?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

The US courts gave corporations person-hood, AI just around the corner.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago

He's breaking the cardinal rule: Never get high on your own supply, my dude.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

Sounds like an appropriate use of time for a person in his position. AI obsolete the CEO, please.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Something I hadn’t considered. AI coding is going to convince managers that they were right all along — that coding can be quick and easy and engineers are just lazy.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

For a while at least.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

"The truth will ~~set you free~~ come back to bite you in the ass."

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Just ask the product managers at Sonos!

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

CEOs always tell the truth right?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe he can write some more Google products that he can then turn around and cancel.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

So he needed a massive AI to replicate the yahoo.com landing page from 1997.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

If you haven't already, divest yourself of MS software and services.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I've been messing around with vibe-painting, myself. Damn it feels good to be an artist.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Google (and every other billionaire/corporation) needs plumbing repair

this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2025

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