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Re:After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by han... by pipo234 on Saturday January 24, 2026 @11:40AM (#46745016)
> I think the problem is that people:

> * see the hype;

> * try to replicate the hype;

> * it fails miserably;

> * they throw everything away;

I'm sure doing two years of vibecoding is is a considerably more sincere attempt than "trying to replicate the hype and failing at it".

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Re:After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by han... by Lerc on Saturday January 24, 2026 @12:17PM (#46745419)
Andrej Karpathy posted

>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.

Just under one year ago.

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Re:After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by han... by thesz on Saturday January 24, 2026 @02:15PM (#46746595) 

  > 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 exactly my experience with using Haskell after having couple of beers.
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Re:After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by han... by bendmorris on Saturday January 24, 2026 @12:23PM (#46745487)
Language evolves; the term is now used to refer to a range of AI assisted coding. The concept has existed longer than the term.
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Re:After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by han... by mhast on Monday January 26, 2026 @04:16AM (#46763439)
The field of "AI assisted programming" is progressing extremely rapidly.

Claude code (arguably the most recent large change, even if it wasn't the first of it's type) was released one year ago.

After watching the video I'd say that it is similar to my own reaction when opening my own code that is 2 years old. (To be clear, code I myself wrote 2 years ago, without AI.) Or even more realistically, code I wrote 6 months ago.

Buy it mostly reads like someone making an exaggerating claim to get s boost from a populist narrative.

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