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by blanched 21 days ago
To be clear, I didn't mean this as an anti-AI gotcha. They also said:

> We get feature requests, improvements, ideas, feedback

So maybe I misunderstood, but it sounded like the design was external (and based on an existing product to begin with).

Also, my understanding was that "vibe coding" meant more of "make it do X" as opposed to "here's a design for X, implement it."

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Sorry, I was trying to be glib by putting "vibe" in quotes, because I think that term is used for people who have zero experience in software engineering, but when used by senior engineers, it's something else. But, I don't know if some populations would still call it vibe coding.

The design is external in that the requirements come from external customers or internal customers (since these applications) are used by both. We're not trying to duplicate or replicate any existing system, but I can't confidently say that I'm not drawing from any prior art.

Hope that makes sense.

As a senior eng, I use "vibe coding" as a http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html

Obviously I'm not just shipping whatever it spits out, but the frontier models and harnesses are getting so good that I'm definitely not checking everything it does or all of its reasoning

Makes sense! My mistake for assuming it was the former definition, lesson learned.

Hopefully soon our industry will align on some standard terms. I feel like "AI-assisted", "agentic coding", "vibe coding", etc each have a few different meanings already.