Billionaire founder of Minecraft slams anyone advocating using AI to write code as ‘incompetent or evil’

Few tools have reshaped day-to-day work in tech as quickly as generative AI; coding tasks that once took developers days—or weeks—can now be spun up in seconds. So naturally, many workers are now embracing “vibes” to program, instead of writing software line by line.

But Minecraft creator Markus Persson, the billionaire developer better known as “Notch,” is sounding an alarm: even if tech companies are embracing coding with AI, that doesn’t make it a good thing.

“Reminder that...