Great article, though if the author ever reads this: please choose "artificial", next time! It's already the first half of AI. If I'm bound to be an irrelevant spec in an irrelevant backwater of an irrelevant galaxy in the moments between abiogenesis and abioterminus, I can at least hope to make one obvious adjective a "thing".
That one Anthropic engineer made "vibecoding" happen overnight, so I write this with full confidence that they have magical influence over the ever-forming neologisms.
One small correction: Andrej Karpathy coined the term "vibe coding" in February 2025, a year after leaving OpenAI for the second time. He joined Anthropic in May 2026.
The euphemism treadmill never stops. Even now, the liar-in-chief is pushing "super-intelligence"
Purveyors of slop will go to any length to rationalize concealing the origins and nature of their wares.
Idk, “artificial” seems about as honest as it gets! And what you’re describing so pejoratively is in large part just how languages evolve.