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dghlsakjglast Monday at 1:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

Definitely. The original vibe coding tweet is pretty explicit about “forgetting the code exists”, and “throwaway weekend projects” (https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383)

Now however, many people just use it to mean any ai-assisted coding.

One person says “vibe coding” to mean a throwaway script to scrape some page. Others use it to mean a code reviewed app built by a team using Claude.

It is so broad as to be meaningless at this point


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theshrike79today at 10:40 AM

Some people (me included) are trying to separate Vibe Coding (no idea about code, just give me the result) from Vibe Engineering (I know how to do this, but can't be arsed to write. I also know what the result should look like)

sixtyjlast Monday at 1:53 PM

Cool. Thus I am an ai/llm-assisted coder amateur. I don’t code for living, I know principles (or I think so) but don’t remember syntax (too old to learn new tricks :)