Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says an experiment that used artificial intelligence to prototype a blockchain roadmap to 2030 in just a few weeks could offer lessons for developers.
“This is an impressive experiment. Coding the entire 2030 roadmap in a matter of weeks” – Buterin sent to X on Saturday after the programmer executed the file bet with Vitalik in February that one person could employ artificial intelligence to code a reference implementation of a blockchain roadmap.
Buterin added that AI “makes coding much faster” and that people “should be open to the possibility that the Ethereum roadmap will end much sooner than people expect, with a much higher standard of security than they expect.”
Vibe coding is where artificial intelligence creates application code, allowing developers to quickly create software. This practice has become more popular as AI models have improved in coding; however, some warn that AI-generated code may be insecure.
Vitalik says AI code will contain ‘critical bugs’
Vitalik said there are “huge reservations” about using AI because the speed at which the code was written means it “almost certainly contains a lot of critical bugs and probably in some cases ‘segmental’ versions of something that the AI didn’t even try to make a full version of.”
“But six months ago, even that was far beyond the realm of possibility, and what matters is where the trend goes,” he added.
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Buterin cautioned that instead of focusing on speed, more emphasis should be placed on safety.
“The right way to use this method is to use half the speed benefits of AI and half the security benefits: generate more test cases, formally verify everything, do more iterative implementations of things.”
He said he was personally excited by the possibility that bug-free code, “long considered an idealistic delusion,” would finally become first a possibility and “then a fundamental expectation.”
Buterin is actively commenting on the Ethereum Foundation’s recently published “Strawmap” roadmap, which outlines all updates planned for the next four years.
He has previously proposed plans to make Ethereum quantum-resistant, and on Sunday he said account abstraction, or shrewd accounts, “will happen within a year.”
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