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by cyberpunk 409 days ago
Okay, admittedly I'm somewhat of a greybeard by this point... However... I thought that vibe coding was .... exactly heavily using AI...

I know this not the place; but what exactly is your definition of 'vibe coding' since you've used it with such confidence in your comment perhaps you can enlighten this programmer..
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JimDabell 409 days ago
Vibe coding is heavily using AI, but heavily using AI is not necessarily vibe coding.

Vibe coding is when you disregard the code altogether and build something throwaway for fun that you don’t care about maintaining:

> There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. […] It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.

— https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383

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tobias5 409 days ago
I now checked that X post. Very interesting. I would say the app is already too big to just do that. I think a good approach is to give the AI small packages but control the overall structure
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serial_dev 408 days ago
Others already linked the original vibe coding tweet https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383

To me, vibe coding means you don't get bogged down by the code, you just say your requirements and complain about end result until it works.

Heavily using AI, in comparison could mean 1. ask for small code snippets, 2. ask it to explain concepts, 3. ask which APIs to use and how, 4. ask it to rephrase your strings, ..., but you still "care" about the code and understand what's going on.

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gdudeman 409 days ago
My definition is that heavily using AI for autocomplete or to write well defined methods is using AI, but vibe coding is instructing AI agents to complete a task and squinting at the multi-file results (e.g. "Now plan out how we will store this data... <mild feedback to the plan> Now execute that plan.").

Claude Code is very vibe code.

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