Then "vibe coding" is a useless term, if it just means "LLM-assisted coding". We might as well just say "LLM-assisted coding" or "AI coding" or whatever.
replyAs much as I find the word "vibe" generally annoying (in all contexts), I actually really like "vibe coding" as "LLM did everything and I didn't even look at it". It's a succinct, useful way to describe that mode of doing things. Diluting it down to "LLM-assisted coding" makes it useless.
Nah, I'm not big on these "it either matches the way ___ used it or it's useless" binaries. The term is the term, it's recent, and people are using various forms of the others you mentioned. People use it loosely, people use it specifically, this is the way for many colloquial terms, and definitions form around them and expand over time or change.
replyIt sort of surprises me how uptight people are getting about a term that was mentioned on X last year and has since been tossed around to loosely imply that a machine did between zero and all of the work. Just because it doesn't match exactly does not mean it's useless, it maps to a concept, if the details are important and ambiguous, then elaborate.
> Then "vibe coding" is a useless term
replyYou're absolutely right.
All language is "coined terms". The point is that if you dilute the definition of a term, you make the term useless. Evolution of a term isn't done automatically. Correcting terms such as these pushed the evolution in a more useful way. Also, evolution of language is not a magic spell that automatically forgives people on making language mistakes.
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