Tapas Adhikary

Building production-grade forms in React can be a painful experience. It's one of the parts of front-end engineering that most developers are uncomfortable with. Usually, you'll start with a simple controlled form using the useState hook. But as the form grows, you realise that typing a single character into an input field triggers a re-render of the entire component tree. The application becomes sluggish and ends up creating a terrible user experience.

If you're a developer (or even a little bit familiar with all the AI developments of the past few years), the term Vibe Coding shouldn't be new to you. It is a software development practice where you describe what you want to AI (an LLM) in plain English, and in response, it gives you the source code for it. You don't write anything manually line-by-line. You just completely focus on the vibe, like features, look-and-feel, and so on – and the AI generates the actual code for you.

If you're a software developer today, it's almost impossible to avoid the noise of AI( Artificial Intelligence) and its impact on the industry. You open X or LinkedIn in the morning, and the majority of the posts you see are the terrifying ones about tech layoffs. You scroll a little more, and someone is claiming that a new AI tool released last week has already made entry-level developers obsolete.