A key part of the definition of vibe coding is that the user accepts code without full understanding.[1] AI researcher Simon Willison said: "If an LLM wrote every line of your code, but you've reviewed, tested, and understood it all, that's not vibe coding in my book—that's using an LLM as a typing assistant."[1]

Did we make it from AI hype to AI dunk in the space of a single Wikipedia article? Lol.

[–] Mirror Giraffe@piefed.social 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I've ended up becoming the sole caretaker of two react native apps, something I did not ask for but some people were fried.

I'm not going to manually troubleshoot and learn everything that breaks when I need to update a dependency. I'll vibe through those errors, learn what I have time for and then test it like mad.

A lot of the time I end up having to solve things myself but my job wouldn't be tolerable if I had to manually work that shit.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yeah. The "this got dumped on us and we're doing the minimum until we can replace it" is a genuinely solid use case for vibe coding.

And honestly, that's all I usually did with those before AI came along anyway. So I welcome better tools for it.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Interesting that the term was coined by someone who presumably intended it to mean a good thing. I assumed it to be an entirely derogatory term...

[–] Ropianos@feddit.org 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Well, lots of words are sort of derogatory in programming right? Hackers hacking things together, rubber duck debugging (you have a bug? Go talk to a toy!), git blame and probably more

Edit: forget git blame, git itself is already slang for idiot. As Linus Torvalds once said, he created two successful projects, both named after himself

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure, but those words have been coined by the nerds, or those that don't try to sell you anything at least. The guy very much wants to sell you vibe coding and LLMs and whatnot.

[–] Ropianos@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

Andrej Karpathy is absolutely a nerd to me. He's not about selling you LLMs but about teaching you how to build your own (I recommend checking his videos out, they are one of the best resources on LLMs)

[–] AnotherPenguin@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

Anything can be derogatory if you try hard enough

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

And reflog!

Oh! It was reflog, sry.

[–] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Dude, love ❤️