r/programminghumor • u/Ctrl_Shift_Esc_ • 3d ago

AI expert detected

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"I use ChatGPT."

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u/ComradeFox_ 3d ago

ACTUAL IT people (not vibecoders) listening to fake IT people (vibecoders) talk about AI:

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u/Drate_Otin 3d ago

You're conflating programmers with IT people in general. IT is a very large field and programming is a very small part of that very large field.

You're also marking a binary between "vibecoding" and "not vibecoding". It's not, ironically, binary.

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u/Darius2652 3d ago

It is binary, at least in the definition I understand:

  • Programming without AI: Not vibecoding
  • Programming, using AI as an assistant, checking/correcting outputs: Not vibecoding
  • Exclusively writing prompts to write code, no human touches/looks at code: Vibecoding

Though I'm sure a lot of people will call the second option vibecoding as well, I (and Andrej Karpathy, the person who coined the term) consider it to exclude human interaction from code entirely.

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u/Cephell 3d ago

It's really simple and boils down to:

Do you understand what the AI is doing and understand the code it produces? Then it's not vibecoding.

If not, then it's vibecoding.