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# 10 commandments for vibe coding


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 11, 2025
- **Time:** 09:40–10:10 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 11
- **Event:** World Congress 2025
- **Tags:** agentic ai, ai, llms, python, software architecture

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1453-10-commandments-for-vibe-coding)

## Description

Since the launch of GPT-4, I've spent an intense and insane amount of time coding with AI. In this talk, I’ll distill everything I’ve learned from this into 10 practical rules. I’ll end with a look ahead—what the future holds as we move into the agentic future of coding and software engineering.

1. Thou shalt not rely on it too much if you are a junior.
2. Thou shalt write lots of tests.
3. Thou shalt not exceed 400 lines of code for each file.
4. Thou shalt organize your codebase well.
5. Thou shalt move slow so that you can go fast.
6. Thou shalt make architectural decisions carefully.
7. Thou shalt provide or let AI collect necessary context.
8. Thou shalt keep the provided context to a minimum.
9. Thou shalt break down a large problem into smaller ones.
10. Thou shalt go agentic.

## Speaker

### [YK Sugi](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@yk-sugi)

Developer Experience Manager at Sourcegraph


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- [Vibe coding sucks! Long life to vibe coding: Hardening Applications for Production with GenAI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/679-vibe-coding-sucks) — Raúl Berganza Gómez
- [Vibe Coding with Goose: Building Apps with AI Agents and MCP](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/815-vibe-coding-with) — Angie Jones
- [Leapter: The Reinvention of Software Development? A Future Built On AI Generated Code.](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/581-leapter-the) — Robert Werner
- [Beyond Files: Reimagining writing code in a distributed AI-powered era](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/899-beyond-files) — Brian Graham