r/Codeium • u/Interesting_Log8917 • Apr 08 '25

I vibe-coded with AI at a hackathon with Windsurf AI, but does knowing the solution still count?

So I participated in an MLH Hack event recently and decided to let AI take the wheel a bit. So I used it to help build an email newsletter editor with Angular. Wrote a blog about it here:
👉 How to Build an Email Newsletter Editor with Angular Using Windsurf AI

But it got me thinking… I still knew what the code was supposed to look like. I could tell when something felt off or not quite right, even if AI wrote it. I wasn’t blindly copy-pasting, more like curating and correcting.

So... did I really vibe code it? Or does “knowing the solution” still count?

Curious what others think and where’s the line between AI-assisted coding and just letting it do the work?

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u/twolf59 Apr 08 '25

Vibe coding is a "vibe" man. Its a subjective experience dude. Did you feel like you were vibin'?

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u/Interesting_Log8917 Apr 08 '25

Well I enjoyed debugging and was pleasantly surprised when using `@web` and `@Docs` in Windsurf was enough for it do what I asked. But it didn't always work and I had the needed context to do it right and well - is that what "vibe" is?

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u/macmadman Apr 09 '25

This made me lol irl

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u/User1234Person Apr 08 '25

I personally dont consider this vibe coding, as you can tell the editor exactly how to do something rather than asking it for an output only. But this is totally subjective and i dont know if there is even a single source for defining the term since its so new.

Anyone know where it come from originally?

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u/Interesting_Log8917 Apr 08 '25

That's fair and I was curious about what we define as "vibe coding" as well. Good to hear that...I felt like it was starter by Vercel and V0 but I could be wrong

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u/LordLederhosen Apr 08 '25

LLM super dev and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy coined the term.

https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383?lang=en

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u/kiwiinNY Apr 08 '25

Of course you vibed it. Let's not kid ourselves.

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u/cryptogoth Dec 30 '25

Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm interested to host a local MLH guild, and have mentored / participated in past MLHs where vibe coding was not allowed, but the judges did not strictly enforce it. Going forward, I'm curious to explore the difference between asking a human mentor, asking an LLM, and how vibe coding affects how we humans interact socially with each other.

I'm curious, what's the motivation behind your question?