OpenAI's former head of research said vibe coding isn't going to make engineering jobs obsolete — for now

Bob McGrew, OpenAI's former chief research officer, said prototypes made with vibe coding have to be "rebuilt with professional software engineers."

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• AI is not going to replace human software engineers just yet, says OpenAI's former research chief.
• Bob McGrew, who left OpenAI last year, said product managers can vibe code "really cool prototypes."
• But engineers still have to build the products in case they need to troubleshoot it, he said.