Forgetting code exists is by definition not suitable for serious work. However, OP said in the following paragraph, that this would be a first draft, and that the code would actually be reviewed and tested properly before being integrated.
At which point it is by definition no longer vibe coding, because you do care about the code! It's just an AI assisted workflow, but now we call all of those vibe coding for some reason. (Naming things is hard!)
If vibe coding means not caring about the code, then a literal translation of the term would be "not caring about coding" coding.
> Forgetting code exists is by definition not suitable for serious work
This is just like everyone who says, “An iPad is not suitable for serious work.”
By which they (and you) generally mean, “What I do is serious work. What you do is unserious work.”
I think I do serious work – I mean they pay me for it? And I have only copy/pasted and just run whatever code’s been generated by AI for the past 12 months or so. Whenever I can I just let the AI run it itself.
Sad to learn that I’ve been so unserious all this time.
What OP said works quite well for a lot of tasks, and if you've set up base instructions on coding style they (Codex, Claude) generate code accordingly.
A key point is that after the "vibe" session you should also have a lot of tests written. So they can easily refactoring the code afterwards if there are major aspects you don't like when you get back to your desktop.
I find funny the trend of software engineers being shocked at the idea that someone would issue a set of instructions to a coder and not look at the code, or only glance at it.
How do you think the world has worked for the past thirty years? AI has just caught up with human skill is all.
Unbelievable. This is the silent de-skilling of this industry.
Imagine saying that you don't need to look at the roads or have no hands on the wheel whilst driving because someone-else said that the car can 'drive' itself; therefore, no need for anyone (including taxi drivers) to learn how to drive.
Just because a machine can generate plausible looking code does not mean you don't need to look at it or not know how it works or why it doesn't work.
> 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.
https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383
Forgetting code exists is by definition not suitable for serious work. However, OP said in the following paragraph, that this would be a first draft, and that the code would actually be reviewed and tested properly before being integrated.
At which point it is by definition no longer vibe coding, because you do care about the code! It's just an AI assisted workflow, but now we call all of those vibe coding for some reason. (Naming things is hard!)
If vibe coding means not caring about the code, then a literal translation of the term would be "not caring about coding" coding.
> Forgetting code exists is by definition not suitable for serious work
This is just like everyone who says, “An iPad is not suitable for serious work.”
By which they (and you) generally mean, “What I do is serious work. What you do is unserious work.”
I think I do serious work – I mean they pay me for it? And I have only copy/pasted and just run whatever code’s been generated by AI for the past 12 months or so. Whenever I can I just let the AI run it itself.
Sad to learn that I’ve been so unserious all this time.
> Naming things is hard!
Indeed.
What OP said works quite well for a lot of tasks, and if you've set up base instructions on coding style they (Codex, Claude) generate code accordingly.
A key point is that after the "vibe" session you should also have a lot of tests written. So they can easily refactoring the code afterwards if there are major aspects you don't like when you get back to your desktop.
I find funny the trend of software engineers being shocked at the idea that someone would issue a set of instructions to a coder and not look at the code, or only glance at it.
How do you think the world has worked for the past thirty years? AI has just caught up with human skill is all.
Unbelievable. This is the silent de-skilling of this industry.
Imagine saying that you don't need to look at the roads or have no hands on the wheel whilst driving because someone-else said that the car can 'drive' itself; therefore, no need for anyone (including taxi drivers) to learn how to drive.
Just because a machine can generate plausible looking code does not mean you don't need to look at it or not know how it works or why it doesn't work.