Vibe Coding Will Soon Just Be Called Coding
Vibe Coding is the new Internet Dating?
Joe C. Marshall draws a parallel between "vibe coding" and early "internet dating." Just as online dating shed its stigma and became simply "dating," he argues that coding exclusively through AI will lose its novelty label. Once AI assistance is universal, the term "vibe coding" will sound as quaint as "internet dating" does today. He remains optimistic that humans will stay in the loop.
If all coding is AI-assisted won't it just be referred to as… "coding"? I believe so. And in that future that greets us, the term will sound just as quaint as "Internet dating" does today.
- monospacegames
The lack of respect software developers have for their craft confounds me every day, to the point that I wonder if anyone in software actually writes code because they enjoy it, instead of making money.
>In that future world (which for some of us is already here), what meaning does the term “vibecoding” have anymore? If all coding is AI-assisted won’t it just be referred to as… “coding”?
Apply the same question to music, or drawing, and perhaps the answer to this will be easier to see. If AI continues to improve I think it's much more likely that all human-written code in the future will be 100% human written. Vibecoding or any human-in-the-loop approach seems like a very intermediate paradigm.
Then again this post seems to be a few months old, so perhaps it's understandable that they weren't "feeling the AGI" as severely as we have been the past few weeks.
- gyomu
Well, vibecoding, as the name says, is about the vibes. “Make me a todo app that feels minimalist, with cool animations”. Boom, ship it (and probably forget about it).
Using AI as a tool in a broader, already existing engineering process (here’s a detailed spec of the todo app; reference layouts for the UI are encoded in this folder; the data format requirements are in this file; the test suite must verify properties XXX) doesn’t have a catchy name, because it’s just software engineering, where coding is just but one part of the whole.
- dimbletimbers
People use online dating because they feel like they have to, but most people hate it. So maybe the analogy is even better than stated.
- the_interloper
this feels like it was written by someone who has been out of the dating scene for a while now
dating apps suck, your UI/UX can groundbreaking but that doesn't make them any less awful to use
This "AI is inevitable" mood that people are in always seem to come from people who don't have to use the things AI is supposedly going to replace, and never consider what the actual consequences of that might be
I live in a city and I still feel like my best bet to meet someone is on the apps because they have taken out a lot of the old ways that people used to meet.
How do you even approach a potential date? IDK and it sucks.
- whywhywhywhy
> as a term, is supposed to denote a human-in-the-loop..... But how much longer will that be true?
Why do you think Claude claims its work on git is co-authored, and now has started putting links to the transcript showing your working. It's about sending a message to the one paying your salary that all your real input in the creation was a few messages and you're replaceable in that equation.