LinkedIn has long been a platform for showcasing professional accomplishments. Now, the company is leaning towards increasing the vibe coding by allowing users to demonstrate their expertise in various AI coding tools directly on their profiles.

The company has partnered with Replit, Lovable, Descript and Relay.app on the feature and is working on integrations with fellow Microsoft-owned GitHub as well as Zapier. LinkedIn often allows users to add various skills and certifications to their profiles. But what makes the latest update a bit different is that users are not self-reporting their own qualifications. Instead, LinkedIn allows the companies behind the AI ​​tools to assess an individual’s relative skills and set a skill level that goes directly to their profile.

For example, AI app maker Lovable can give someone a “bronze” for “vibe coding,” while platform Replit uses numerical levels and Relay.app can determine that a person is an “intermediate” level “AI Agent Builder,” according to screenshots shared on LinkedIn. These levels should be dynamically updated as people gain more experience using the relevant tools, according to LinkedIn.

Of course, the update also comes at a time when companies are using the same kinds of AI tools to lay off thousands of workers. So while there may be value in showing off your vibe coding skills, there are plenty of workers who are probably less than excited about ceding more ground to AI. When I asked, LinkedIn’s head of career products Pat Whealan about this he said that

AI-specific skills are an increasingly important signal to recruiters and the latest update will make it easier for them to assess candidates’ skills. But he added that the goal is not to make AI-specific skills the sole focus. “It’s less about replacing any other signals, and more about showing new ways that people work,” he told Engadget. “And how we give a verifiable signal to renters and other people looking at their profile, that they actually use these tools on a regular basis.”