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0 pointsdewey4mo ago0 comments

Just because AI tools are involved doesn't mean it's "Vibe coding".

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If you leave "Generated with claude-code" in the commit message, It was vibe coded.

It sure is a pretty good indicator, and if you underestimate human laziness you’re gonna have a bad time regardless.

Also looking at how much they’ve released and how fast and how they blog like they own the world (or design the website)

I used to look up to Posthog as I thought, wow this is a really good startup. They’re achieving a lot fast actually.

But turns out a lot was sloppy. I don’t trust them no more and would opt for another platform now.

bopbopbop74mo ago

What does it mean?

simonw4mo ago

The preferred definition of "vibe coding" is when you have AI generate code that you use without reviewing it first: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/19/vibe-coding/

Unfortunately a lot of people think it means any time an LLM helps write code, but I think we're winning that semantic battle - I'm seeing more examples of it used correctly than incorrectly these days.

It's likely that the majority of code will be AI assisted in some way in the future, at which point calling all of it "vibe coding" will lose any value at all. That's why I prefer the definition that specifies unreviewed.

chrisweekly4mo ago

I share your preference. (I also mourn the loss of the word "vibe" for other contexts.) In this case there were apparently hundreds of commit messages stating "generated by Claude Code". I feel like there's a missing set of descriptors -- something similar to Creative Commons with its now-familiar labels like "CC-BY-SA" -- that could be used to indicate the relative degree of human involvement. Full-on "AI-YOLO-Paperclips" at one extreme could be distinguished from "AI-IDE-TA" for typeahead / fancy autocomplete at the other. Simon, you're in a fantastic position to champion some kind of basic system like this. If you run w/ this idea, please give me a shout-out. :)

bopbopbop74mo ago

I also hope that majority of the code in the future is AI assisted like it is with PostHog because my cyber security firm is going to make so much money.

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somat4mo ago

If you leave "Generated with claude-code" in the commit message, It was vibe coded.

hsbauauvhabzb4mo ago

It sure is a pretty good indicator, and if you underestimate human laziness you’re gonna have a bad time regardless.

jwpapi4mo ago

Also looking at how much they’ve released and how fast and how they blog like they own the world (or design the website)

I used to look up to Posthog as I thought, wow this is a really good startup. They’re achieving a lot fast actually.

But turns out a lot was sloppy. I don’t trust them no more and would opt for another platform now.

bopbopbop74mo ago

What does it mean?

simonw4mo ago

The preferred definition of "vibe coding" is when you have AI generate code that you use without reviewing it first: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/19/vibe-coding/

chrisweekly4mo ago

bopbopbop74mo ago

I also hope that majority of the code in the future is AI assisted like it is with PostHog because my cyber security firm is going to make so much money.

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