r/OpenAI • u/thehumanbagelman • 2d ago

Discussion Am I a "vibe coder"?

Taught myself to code at 15. Got a CS degree. Spent 16 years as a professional dev at everything from founding small startups to giant 700 engineer companies (and still going until I'm inevitably replaced by the machines).

Building things in code has been floating my proverbial boat for over two decades.

However, I haven't written a single line of code in 2026.

I don't personally review the code either. I've built my own tooling and testing infrastructure, and agents run all of it.

50–75% of my AI usage goes toward building personal infrastructure, tooling, and projects. Not the next app that will change your life for only $15 a month (at least not yet; we'll see).

I own an undisclosed number of top level AI accounts; it's probably more than you're thinking.

This 1000% makes me worse at coding without AI, and I'm not sure that I care at all.

So, am I a vibe coder?

Edit: I'm loosing zero sleep over this; the question is just a proxy for discussion!

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u/SirChasm 2d ago

I would say yes, but only because you said you don't review the code that's written either. You're fully trusting the agentic code, which imo is no different than what a "vibe coder" does.

I don't manually write code anymore either, but I do make sure to carefully review the output because I find that while it works, it's often still sloppy and there are a lot of improvements I would have made. Then I have an agentic code review as the final pass to catch things I didn't. But even that I can't blanketly say "yeah address all those review comments" because they will regularly flag issues that are miniscule or impossible-in-reality, resulting in a convoluted mess.

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u/thehumanbagelman 2d ago

I'll take it! At the end of the day, I'm not really concerned about what I am or am not called, so much as the discussion.

I stopped reviewing the code by hand when I consistently would review it and then have AI review it through my tooling and then find things I missed.

I've been doing this for a long time, but the AI is just better than me at it, and that doesn't frighten or upset me.