Re:6 Weeks of Claude Code
by danparsonson on Saturday August 02, 2025 @10:09PM
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No, they're not.
"A key part of the definition of vibe coding is that the user accepts code without full understanding.[1] Programmer Simon Willison said: 'If an LLM wrote every line of your code, but you've reviewed, tested, and understood it all, that's not vibe coding in my book—that's using an LLM as a typing assistant.'"
Re:6 Weeks of Claude Code
by radley on Sunday August 03, 2025 @02:05AM
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I wasn't familiar with his full message, so I didn't realize that the current definition of vibe coding was so cynical. Many of us don't see it that way.
"A key part of the definition of vibe coding is that the user accepts code without full understanding.[1] Programmer Simon Willison said: 'If an LLM wrote every line of your code, but you've reviewed, tested, and understood it all, that's not vibe coding in my book—that's using an LLM as a typing assistant.'"
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding)
> The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy, a computer scientist who served as the director of artificial intelligence at Tesla.
And...?