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by modarts 282 days ago
It still amuses me how literally people took Kapathy's famous tweet around vibe coding https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383

If people were to actually read beyond the first sentence, it would become clear very quickly that this was meant to be tongue in cheek.

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People took it seriously because that's exactly how a lot of LLM users think and exactly what they want 'coding' to be. Honestly I'm not even certain it is satire.
Because most people have the context-window of 10 tokens, they do not read further than the first sentence (or two).
I don't think it's tongue-in-cheek at all. It refers to a specific type of LLM coding, where you literally don't care about how bad the code is and just code stuff and hope it works. That's how I use the term, and that's why I use it rarely.