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0 pointsnailer1mo ago0 comments

> I suspect it's less of an undertaking than you may think... having an existing codebase you can reference prevents a lot of the problems you have with vibecoding.

That's because it's not vibe coding - stingraycharles doesn't seem to understand what vibe coding is. Vibe coding was defined here https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383

> 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.

This is very far from Anthropic's migration plans.

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andai1mo ago· 4 in thread

Yeah, it's a distinction worth making, and the language for making it kind of sucks. Vibe coding means "AI does the whole thing", or "I use tab autocomplete" depending on who you ask. It's not a very useful term anymore, we need better ones.

My benchmark is basically, "are you letting the AI drive."

In this case, an AI appears to have written the migration guide...

wrs1mo ago

It was and is a perfectly good term, but people started using it without regard for its definition. I don't know why people wouldn't misuse a "better" term the same way.

kelnos1mo ago

In this case I think the current zeitgeist (at least among zoomers and younger millennials) really loves the word "vibe". Once they hear of the term "vibe coding", they just want to be able to say it, even if what they're doing isn't really vibe coding.

And then that leaks outside their social and age groups, because other people hear the incorrect usage, get confused, and incorporate that confusion into their own use of the term.

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c0rruptbytes1mo ago

i mean AI docs are usually the result of collabs between users and AI using /plan

with superpowers, i see a lot of specs -> impl plan -> execute plan

andai1mo ago

Yeah. It "might be" that a human actually looked at it. There's just no way to know anymore. So it rightly doesn't inspire confidence.

Jtarii1mo ago· 3 in thread

That is one person's definition of vibe coding, not "the definition" of vibe coding. Words have multiple meanings.

andai1mo ago

Just going off vibes and not even looking at the code was the original definition. But "different people say the same thing but mean different things" is kind of the problem I was getting at.

nailerOP1mo ago

It’s the person that created the term’s definition.

Jtarii1mo ago

Language and culture don't work like that.

Inventing a term doesn't give you exclusive rights to provide the definition.

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bitwize1mo ago

"Vibe coding" = "let Dario take the wheel" as ThePrimeagen puts it.

brabel1mo ago

You are right but recently, vibe coding has become a demeaning term for AI assisted code by anti-AI people. It’s interesting seeing how words evolve very quickly on the internet as they spread to different demographics.

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11 comments · 4 top-level

andai1mo ago· 4 in thread

My benchmark is basically, "are you letting the AI drive."

In this case, an AI appears to have written the migration guide...

wrs1mo ago

It was and is a perfectly good term, but people started using it without regard for its definition. I don't know why people wouldn't misuse a "better" term the same way.

kelnos1mo ago

And then that leaks outside their social and age groups, because other people hear the incorrect usage, get confused, and incorporate that confusion into their own use of the term.

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c0rruptbytes1mo ago

i mean AI docs are usually the result of collabs between users and AI using /plan

with superpowers, i see a lot of specs -> impl plan -> execute plan

andai1mo ago

Yeah. It "might be" that a human actually looked at it. There's just no way to know anymore. So it rightly doesn't inspire confidence.

Jtarii1mo ago· 3 in thread

That is one person's definition of vibe coding, not "the definition" of vibe coding. Words have multiple meanings.

andai1mo ago

Just going off vibes and not even looking at the code was the original definition. But "different people say the same thing but mean different things" is kind of the problem I was getting at.

nailerOP1mo ago

It’s the person that created the term’s definition.

Jtarii1mo ago

Language and culture don't work like that.

Inventing a term doesn't give you exclusive rights to provide the definition.

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bitwize1mo ago

"Vibe coding" = "let Dario take the wheel" as ThePrimeagen puts it.

brabel1mo ago

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