Notch says he may try vibe coding after struggling to hire good programmers
max_paperclips · x · 2026-07-21
- A quote from Notch says he may try vibe coding because hiring good programmers has been hard.
- He jokes that using a chatbot would make him feel less bad about firing it, and mentions wanting AI to help build dull game-development tools like map editors or node-graph visualizers.
- The reply frames this as a small culture shift: even old-school coders are becoming more curious about procedural generation and token machines.
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