Introducing Vibe Coder: Our Take on Voice-Driven Coding

At Deepgram, we’ve been tinkering with something exciting lately, and we’re ready to share it with you: meet Vibe Coder, an open-source VS Code extension we built to explore voice-based “vibe coding” with AI-powered IDEs like Cursor and Windsurf. Hats off to Andre Karpathy for coining the perfect term for this approach—it’s catchy, and it’s stuck with us.

Here’s the scoop: we’re genuinely excited about the potential of vibe coding. Imagine using your voice to guide an AI as you code, turning ideas into working prototypes fast. We put Vibe Coder together quickly to show what’s possible—it’s a rough first draft, not a polished product. But we’re convinced this could be a game-changer for how software gets built down the road. Think of it like the early days of ChatGPT: a demo that sparked something big. That’s the vibe we’re chasing.

We’re releasing Vibe Coder as an experiment, not a full commitment. It might grow into something bigger, maybe even a community-driven effort, or it could inspire our next move. For now, we’re putting it out there to say, “We believe in this direction—here’s our first step.” You can download it for any VS Code forked AI IDE, give it a spin, and let us know what you think. We’d love your input—tell us what clicks, what’s off, or what you’d add.

We used vibe coding to build Vibe Coder, and are already planning to use it  to improve itself (pretty cool, right?) –  we’ll share a video of that soon. We’ve been testing this concept internally for months, building real things, and now it’s your turn to weigh in. Check out the details on Product Hunt, watch the demo, and download the extension from the VS Code Marketplace or the Github repo. Let’s see where this takes us—whether it takes off or not, we’re here to experiment and learn. Stay tuned!