Neither do vibe coders.
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Prompt an LLM to write a bit of code that does something. Do this 9000 times until it spits out something that vaguely accomplishes this task. You can't push any of the fever dream nonsense it created into the main branch until you check it thoroughly. In the end you spend more time with this process than you would have if you'd just written it yourself.
The C suite and the board members continue jerking each other off as they call this "efficiency."
If you need a quick&dirty piece of code, you can generate it by firing some prompts into an LLM. You can get a decent result if you know what you are doing. It may not be production-ready, but often it's a good starting point. This is NOT vibe coding.
Vibe coding is what people who don't know what they are doing do when they try the process above, and think it's production-ready.
Vibecoding:
- go to chatgpt
- ask it to make an app
- ask it to fix errors (ad infinitum)
- ???
- sell app (optional)
- get sued and ruin your reputation (hopefully)
The ??? isn’t a reference to underpants gnomes. It’s just that no one has ever gotten LLMs to actually fix its own bugs to find out what that step is
Largely accurate apart from special-purpose tools usually being employed instead of ChatGPT
Same thing. Coding agents just automate the third step and waste even more money and energy.
Original definition: using AI to create a small bespoke kinda-crap-but-it-works apps or games for personal use. It's a shitty proto but it's interesting.
(My reaction: ooo not my jam but that sounds neat I guess)
Modern definition: it's a multi-quadrispillion dollar industry and it's the future according to some very important board members.
(My reaction: ...capitalism ruins fucking everything)
It’s using AI to ruin your codebase and build technical debt.
I think it is very funny and fully support companies doing this to themselves.
The Microsoft way. gestures at the last several patch Tuesdays
I think the most hilarious thing was their public Copilot demonstration working on the .NET source code. They basically showed the world that copilot isn't ready for serious work.
It were they that have been bragging that more than 50% of their code was written by AI, weren't?
Anyway, that's counted by lines of code, not in number of mini-vans. They can still use a better statistic.
are... you having a stroke? Blink twice if you need an ambo.
Kids this days won't even get a dated reference...
I honestly thought vibe coding was a joke until someone posted a video about it and then realized people were serious.
It's basically the equivalent to your friend who has a brilliant idea for an app and just needs you to do the coding for it - without having any clue how IT actually works.
I thought it was a joke until someone at my company gave a company wide presentation on how to use AI to accelerate coding and st several points flat out ADMITTED he didn't know what the hell it was doing but you just need to 'baby sit' it and you get useful scripts out of it. I'm a hardware engineer and I wanted to scream at him.
It's not just for coding either. Yesterday, my senior director used Google's AI to ask about the architecture to integrate one of our vendor products with our ERP system (usually my job). Fortunately the AI did me a solid and said "This is a highly complex integration 🤯".
Yeah... No shit, that's why so many of us are employed. Shit's complicated.
Now, your friend with the birlliant idea doesn't need you anymore and can ask a chatbot to make his brilliant app all by himself!
That is definitely a great benefit of vibe coding: it's an idiot magnet and frees up our brainspace.
Oh is that what it is...
* awkwardly zips up pants *
vibe coding is very dirty.
Wait. it’s not a new dating buzzword invented by VICE to generate click baits?
It's going to an llm and typing in the text box "make me an app that does X" then patting yourself on the back for "coding".
It's what in about 2 years, will allow hackers to drain your back accounts through an obvious security flaw in your banking app
What if I told you that with our advanced security AI agent we can scan your code and .. Wait sorry, we just got hacked, nvm.
"Our AI security reviews 20,000 configurations every hour. Your money is safer than - shit. Well, nevermind. There's no money left. Excuse me, I need to leave the country."
We replaces our entire app with an AI agent, so it can never get hacked!
Oh wait, people just ask it to roll play they are the bank owner and need funds from other accounts?
Who could have possibly predicted something like this? Sam said this AGI was flawless
imagine your mom using an llm to write an app...
It's using tools like Claude or other agentic AI to collaboratively make an app. It's a fun novelty until you realize people paid more than you are doing it without knowing what they're doing and getting away with it.
Have you tried asking Copilot what it is?
"Vibe coding" is an informal term, mostly used in online programming communities, that refers to writing code in a relaxed, intuitive, or improvisational way rather than following a strict plan or methodology.
It’s often associated with:
Experimentation → typing out ideas, running them quickly, and adjusting on the fly.
Flow state → coding while listening to music, late at night, or just for fun without rigid structure.
Prioritizing creativity over rules → not worrying too much about best practices, efficiency, or readability at first—just "feeling out" the solution.
Playfulness → sometimes it means coding with minimal context, like making something cool without knowing exactly how it’ll end up.
Some people use “vibe coding” positively (as in getting into the zone and letting intuition guide you), while others use it humorously or critically (as in writing spaghetti code without much forethought).
Would you like me to give you some examples of how vibe coding looks in practice—like snippets that show the contrast between "structured coding" vs. "vibe coding"?
Its a strawman made up by copyright crusaders, to belittle people who use new technology.
Remember when that chess champion accused that other chess champion of cheating? It's like that.
Unless you're insinuating that using AI to vibe code is like sticking a vibrating dildo up your own ass just to "win" (and then get accused of cheating), then no... it's not at all like that, lol