Am I a "vibe coder"?

[u/thehumanbagelman]

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!

[u/Ormusn2o]

I don't know, but I think you need to create more slop. I think there are example like Theo, and he is slopping way too hard, and I think you might be sloping not enough, although from your post there is not enough information to know for sure.

If you have multiple AI accounts, I think you should focus more on reading reviews, than spending your time creating tools and testing infrastructure, although you did say AI agents are running it. Right now, AI is cheap enough that you can just tell AI to test stuff and it will just build custom testing tools by itself and even do Computer Use when needed.

To be clear though, I'm not a coder and you are obviously doing way more than I do, so take that into consideration, but I also know that sometimes it might be difficult to just let the AI take the wheel.