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ModernMechlast Wednesday at 4:55 PM1 replyview on HN

I disagree, "vibe" characterizes how the LLM is being used, not that AI is being used at all. The vibe part means it's not rigorous. Using an LLM to autocomplete a line in an otherwise traditionally coded project would not be considered "vibe" coding, despite being AI assisted, because the programmer can easily read and verify the line is as correct as if they had typed it character by character.


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closewithlast Wednesday at 5:24 PM

That's the etymology, but it's now entered the general lexicon and that distinction had been lost.

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