Vibe Coding _ !@#$% Kids!
Tech Review has a short article that attempts to describe "vibe coding" and discuss some of the ramifications, https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/16/1115135/what-is-vibe-coding-exactly/
Archive version, https://archive.is/5PGPK
When OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy excitedly took to X back in February to post about his new hobby, he probably had no idea he was about to coin a phrase that encapsulated an entire movement steadily gaining momentum across the world.
"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," he said. "I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding-I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works."
This certainly would not work in our industry, where software is often used in human-life-critical applications. Seems to me this will speed up the race to the bottom of software quality, but maybe it has a place?
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