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0 pointsandai1mo ago0 comments

> 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.

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

Forgetting code exists is by definition not suitable for serious work. However, OP said in the following paragraph, that this would be a first draft, and that the code would actually be reviewed and tested properly before being integrated.

At which point it is by definition no longer vibe coding, because you do care about the code! It's just an AI assisted workflow, but now we call all of those vibe coding for some reason. (Naming things is hard!)

If vibe coding means not caring about the code, then a literal translation of the term would be "not caring about coding" coding.

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paulcole1mo ago· 2 in thread

> Forgetting code exists is by definition not suitable for serious work

This is just like everyone who says, “An iPad is not suitable for serious work.”

By which they (and you) generally mean, “What I do is serious work. What you do is unserious work.”

I think I do serious work – I mean they pay me for it? And I have only copy/pasted and just run whatever code’s been generated by AI for the past 12 months or so. Whenever I can I just let the AI run it itself.

Sad to learn that I’ve been so unserious all this time.

> Naming things is hard!

Indeed.

andaiOP1mo ago

Well, are you reading the code? If not, how can you vouch for the correctness?

paulcole1mo ago

No, not reading the code. I vouch for the correctness because it runs and produces output that is useful. It might not be 100% right but neither was the code I wrote by hand.

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