Claude Code's creator is sick of the phrase 'vibe coding.' Suggest your alternative here.

https://www.businessinsider.com/claude-code-creator-boris-cherny-vibe-coding-anthropic-ai-2026-5

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AresUII@lemmy.world · 230 pts · 105d (5 replies)

Code laundering

veeesix@lemmy.ca · 70 pts · 105d (4 replies)

Claundering?

Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org · 16 pts · 105d (2 replies)

Claudering?

E: It's just the same as "to google" at this point.

lettruthout@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 105d

Clodering?

davidgro@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 105d

Claubbering

crandlecan@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 105d

Stumbling!

grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works · 200 pts · 105d (8 replies)

Fauxgramming

TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca · 21 pts · 105d

This one is too good to catch on

rosco385@lemmy.wtf · 9 pts · 105d (4 replies)

You just know most people would pronounce it "foxgramming" and not get it.

postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 105d (2 replies)

FoxCode with Bill AI'Riley

yakko@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 104d (1 reply)

Fuckin' thing SUCKS

postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 104d

Fuck IT. We'll do it AI.

kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com · 3 pts · 104d

like faux news??

DScratch@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 105d

Ooh, that’s good.

Curious_Canid@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 105d

You have won the internet.

TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca · 166 pts · 105d (2 replies)

Slop coding.

sirboozebum@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 105d

Crap coding

captcha@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz · 3 pts · 104d

I was here to offer this. Maybe even vibe slopping

Deestan@lemmy.world · 102 pts · 105d

"Aggressively de-skilling while simultaneously shitting out tech debt"

Doesn't roll off the tongue as well, though.

"Slopping"

pr06lefs@lemmy.ml · 77 pts · 105d (2 replies)

plagiarism as a service

blackjam_alex@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 105d (1 reply)

PaaS

onlyhalfminotaur@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 104d

The egg dyeing company is gonna sue your ass. https://youtu.be/U0LzsThR2eI

trailee@sh.itjust.works · 71 pts · 105d (3 replies)

Autoclanking

scarabic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 105d (1 reply)

Yeah we just say clankering

trailee@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 105d

Clankers gonna clank

HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org · 1 pts · 105d

I like that one!

sirdorius@programming.dev · 45 pts · 104d

Tech debt

jasoman@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 105d (3 replies)

Slopspreading

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 105d

Slopping.

JigglySackles@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 105d

I hate that.... It's perfect.

ElectricTrombone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 105d

muck spreading might also work imo

bountygiver@lemmy.ml · 34 pts · 105d (3 replies)

isn't vibe coding a term that comes from the ai bros themselves first? We would've used slop coding lol

Pappabosley@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 104d

You think he just needs to reclaim it?

jj4211@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 103d

Yeah, but the real developers regard it with disdain. I guess he thinks its only an image problem and a rebrand will fix it.

lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 104d

Shit coding?

lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 104d (1 reply)

fuckin' Clown Code.

Etterra@discuss.online · 1 pts · 104d

I like it, it adds insult without sacrificing meaning.

paraphrand@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 105d (1 reply)

They vibe code Claude code. So I can see why.

ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 105d

They literally accidentally open-sourced it, because they vibe code their devops. They have unusually low server uptime, because they vibe code their infrastructure. These jokes write themselves.

raynethackery@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 105d

Fraud coding.

tinfoilhat@lemmy.ml · 27 pts · 105d (2 replies)

Cuck coding.

QueenFern@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 105d

Winner!

boboliosisjones@feddit.nu · 0 pts · 104d

Nice.

arcine@jlai.lu · 27 pts · 104d (1 reply)

Code Vomit.

jj4211@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 103d

This is just so fitting.

I keep getting merge requests now from people that their whole job to date had been too scared by the syntax to try coding.

It's almost always a shotgun of way too many lines of code changed for a small thing, often with horrible side effects that would be unacceptable.

Someone wanted to tweak the CSS layout of one element, what should have been a one line change. The pull request had hundreds of css changes, basically touching everything. Clearly the model had started changing things and he kept saying it didn't do it yet until finally it did and it never rolled back anything it did, including many of the rules being repeated 5 times in a row in the same place..

They felt like AI was making them so helpful because they could submit a code change directly instead of just asking for what they want. They proudly said "AI told me:" and then explain the brilliance of the AI finding. One time the AI finding was addressed over 6 months prior, the AI never thought to update the software, but instead proposed a really crap workaround that would have failed to cover a whole class of similar scenarios while simultaneously imposing crazy side effects on scenarios that weren't tested.

I can use AI too, please just send me what you would have sent to the AI, and if AI can do it, I could use the AI. If you think the AI will figure out how you are using something wrong and don't want to bother/wait for a human to help, fine, but if it gets to what it thinks is a software bug, just rewind and start from your problem statement when you come to me...

db2@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 105d

Vibe coding. Boris can go vibe himself.

DeuS@feddit.nl · 23 pts · 104d

How about VaaS (Vulnerability as a Service)

CatAssTrophy@safest.space · 23 pts · 104d

Who gives a flying fuck what terms one asshole is sick of? Fuck him, fuck vibe coding and trying to enforce language that appeals to what "elite" dipshits like.

absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz · 23 pts · 105d

Schlopp

I vote "schlopp summoning"

Brewchin@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 105d

Oh no, yet another slop marketeer (CxO, whatever) is unhappy that we're treating their cash cow with derision. How awful for you.

Pipe down and go back to your clankwanking.

davidagain@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 104d (1 reply)
  • Subscription coding.
  • It looks like you're writing an app. Can I help you with that?
  • CrappyCodey
  • Clueless coding
  • Klutz code
  • Mañana coding
  • Brain-free coding
  • Developerless development
  • Self-driving systems
  • Humanity-free development
  • If claude can do this it can replace management next
  • Claude codepirated
  • Good luck copywriting this intellectual property theft
  • AI pwned
  • I never really understood the codebase in the first place
  • Blagger's code
  • I'm so much more valuable to my employer now that I've outsourced all that tedious thinking, understanding and creating I used to do.
Gremour@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 104d

Clueless coding is the perfect term.

Blackmist@feddit.uk · 21 pts · 104d

"Call it what you like, you're still going to need us" Code.

It's just really high level BASIC with much looser syntax. It doesn't mean my boss could use it, any more than they could use the "no code" rubbish, BASIC, C, Fortran or Assembly that came before it.

If your job was taking really detailed technical specifications and turning it into something a computer can read, then you might be in trouble. But my job was always deciphering the nonsense amalgamations of customers, sales people, and managers, figuring out what the actual requirement is, determine the simplest thing that could handle that, and write it in such a way that the inevitable changes that they request won't be too painful to add.

HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org · 21 pts · 105d

Sloperating?

2deck@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 105d (1 reply)

Pseudocoding

9bananas@feddit.org · 3 pts · 104d

no, no, no, biiig NO:

pseudo-code is an actual, useful tool in software development!

don't misappropriate that one!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudocode

maxie@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 103d (1 reply)

Slopmaxxing

FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 2 pts · 103d

Ooo, this unironically lmao

Scrollone@feddit.it · 18 pts · 104d
  • Slopcoding
  • Poopslopping
  • Anti-environment laziness
spongebue@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 105d (1 reply)

Vibe coding will do just fine. I understand your concern over your product and its reputation but I don't really share that with you.

lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 104d

It's better to see "vibe coders" think they're doing something cool rather than shameful. It'd be way easier to spot them like that (and prepare mentally for "their" code)

FireWire400@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 104d
  • Slopcoding
  • Codeslopping
  • Spaghetticoding
  • "Good luck trying to figure this out in 2 years" Coding
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 104d

What do you prefer? Code theft? Compiled slop? Inefficient shambling?

vane@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 104d

codeshittication

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 104d

SLOP++

Baggie@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 105d (2 replies)

Fauxding

dox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 104d (1 reply)

I really like this one! It fits well

Baggie@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 104d

Thanks! I think it sounds better than it spells but the spirit is there

rlc3r_yb3ldcg_@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 105d (3 replies)

slop cobbling

laranis@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 105d (1 reply)

Can't unsee. 💕

rlc3r_yb3ldcg_@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 105d

LOL. I was thinking like a cobbler that makes shoes, and the phrase "cobbled together". But yeah, now I can't unsee it either and that's even funnier :)

isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 104d

I believe we have a winner!

nightlily@leminal.space · 14 pts · 104d

Lobotomy as a Service.

BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 104d

Ass-coding

Randelung@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 104d (1 reply)

I like to pronounce it very German in my environment, which becomes Klaut Kot. Steals Feces. It's quite fitting tbh.

pirat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 103d

Before reading your explanation, to me, Klaut Kot sounded more like some deftige Gericht!

Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 104d (2 replies)

Script Kiddie is the derogatory term for hackers that download tools and have no idea what they are doing.

whaleross@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 104d

Prompt kiddies

Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 104d

At least kiddies can eventually learn, the biggest fans of these things are worse, they are MBAies

gankouskhan@piefed.zip · 12 pts · 105d (2 replies)

Cuck Coding

Pappabosley@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 104d (1 reply)

Oh yeah, code it so good

gankouskhan@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 104d

Deestan@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 105d (1 reply)

Clod Coding

passepartout@feddit.org · 2 pts · 105d

Creating clodpieces

klu9@piefed.social · 11 pts · 105d

Software piracy

SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 11 pts · 105d

And we're sick of all this AI bullshit, so what?

jjlinux@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 104d

I read all the way to "is beginning to annoy him." and immediately stopped giving a fuck.

Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 104d

Clanker code.

Professorozone@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 104d

NOT - coding.

AnalogHole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 105d

Douche bagging

realitista@lemmus.org · 9 pts · 105d

Slop coding

Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 105d

Automated bullshiting?

XPost3000@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 104d

Slopware Engineering

zoloftt@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 104d

Clippy coding! Newer coders won't get the reference, older coders can hold it with the same scorn.

Rod_Orm@piefed.world · 7 pts · 105d

Slop coding

pr06lefs@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 105d

poop tech

ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 104d

My self-hosted LLM can suggest better names for anything!

Subscription fee is only $1m a minute, most answers are returned in about 3 hours, since I can't afford more RAM.

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 104d

Jerking off.

bhamlin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 105d

Shit scripting, or shitting

criss_cross@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 105d

Code shitting

darkangelazuarl@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 103d

Shit coding Slop coding Hallucination coding Job security coding Your gonna regret this coding Delete all my data coding

prime_number_314159@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 105d

I've got no strong contenders.

"Blind coding" "Script slopping" "Junk writing" "Not knowing what you're doing, but it's fine because you also aren't capable of knowing what you're doing" "Slop slapping" (as in "I had a problem with my computer, so I slop slapped a solution on it") "Wasting GPU cycles so you can also waste CPU cycles"

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 105d
  • Slopware
  • making sloppy joes
  • ez baking
  • strudeling
  • voiding
  • irritus
rhubarb@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 103d

Vowel Movements

Greg@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 105d (1 reply)

Slop slapping

phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 105d

Ohh, I like that one

lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 105d

I wonder how many of these people in this thread made their snarky comment and went right back to Claude Code

It’s not zero

_cnt0@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 105d

code-vomiting

rozodru@piefed.world · 6 pts · 105d

Hallucination Pandering.

k0e3@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 103d

Vibarrhea

flint@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 105d

pooding

FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 5 pts · 103d

Ok boomer, how about slop coding, or woke vibing?

Are those better for your snowflake ears? Or are you going to keep giving us free lists about which words hurt your feelings the most lol

kirihito@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 105d

slop dig

postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 105d

Dildo code

melfie@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 104d

Spanking the code monkey.

tiptoes@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 105d

Code sloppering

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 105d

How about: "Producing unmaintainable slopcode"?

fartographer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 105d

Salting the earth

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 104d

Slopilation. Wastecode. Bullshit harvesting.

dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 105d

Rampant incompetence?

Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 103d

Lets call it dogfucking

SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 105d
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tristynalxander@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 104d
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Kaligalis@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 104d (2 replies)

Nothing wrong with "vibe coding", "prompting", "generating" or the other terms associated with using AI to generate something.

If you do proper quality assurance, and assume ownership and accountability it is your piece of work. If not, it's AI slop.

Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 103d

Agreed. I finally got around to setting up a system in a mostly isolated subnet to play with agentic coding recently, and I was reasonably surprised at how not awful the result was. Still won't trust the fuck to spit out anything without supervision.

All I wanted was to make a debug version of a FOSS app I use because the official app is lacking basic features. It took a few attempts, but it solved my issues and spat out an answer that was the minimum viable patch (after instructing it to do so and not edit a dozen unnecessary files) that looks reasonable. I never got into android apps, but I understand the syntax well enough to know it didn't do anything horribly out of pocket.

jj4211@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 103d

I'll say "vibe coding" to me implies the operator has zero awareness of the actual code, and there is something wrong.

They treat the actual program logic in the same way folks treat assembly code as some arcane black magic they don't have to think about. Problem is the tooling is not nearly so deterministic as a compiler, and the output is just too bad to be relied upon.

For certain clasesses of tasks, it may do a serviceable job, maybe at first. If you have ongoing evolution requirements, it can dig itself a whole that it can't really dig out of. It can't process the code that had been generated to extrapolate a code change to match the change request.

The GenAI coding needs supervision, and 'vibe coding' implies opting out of careful supervision.

wuffah@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 105d (1 reply)

Before LLMs were a thing, my CS1 professor used to call it “The Big Bang Theory”: You write some code and then BANG! It works!

Of course, it doesn’t work, and the results are unpredictable bad software that you don’t understand. The point of the analogy was that you need to analyze and literally iterate over code to gain concrete proof of what it was actually doing to engineer a coherent software design.

timwa@lemmy.snowgoons.ro · 4 pts · 104d

You really needed a better CS professor.

If you're writing code that you don't understand without treating it like a goddamned microbe in a petri dish, you are the slop coder.

fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 103d

Copyright liability as a Service (ClaaS)

pr06lefs@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 105d

clod dropping

Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 103d

It should insult Boris Cherny by name.

boogiebored@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 105d

vulncoding

reddit_sux@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 103d

How about

Not Coding

ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 105d

Chode coding

Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org · 2 pts · 105d

slop + coding

slop coding

sloding

slopding (E: Could be translated into German as "something which is slop". -ding has a similar meaning as -zeug, e.g. Flugzeug, "something which flies")

sloping

the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 105d

Bile coding

grumpo_potamus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 104d

Personally massaging the code

Bakkoda@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 103d

Random Code Generator Code Vomit The Vomit Commit

HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 105d

Call it what it is, middle management

Hello_there@fedia.io · 2 pts · 105d

Code extruding. Like extruding shit out of an anus

cecilkorik@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 105d

I just want to say: I appreciate all these comments so much, I regret that I only have a single upvote to give each of them. You all give me hope that at least there will be fellow humans standing by my side through... wherever this goes.

GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 105d

Pooping?

Darkonion@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 105d

Chug Nugging; Unmindulating; Synth-ercising; Bloater Moting;

Tronn4@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 105d

Made up shit

VeryVito@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 105d

Vibe shiting

cheat700000007@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 104d

Suggest he go fuck himself

CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 105d

Peer reviewed or not peer reviewed. Doesn't matter how it was created as long as others have been walked through it.

liinux@pawb.social · 1 pts · 105d

Diablo's like 🤓☝️

solbt@feddit.org · 1 pts · 105d

wig coding

woelkchen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 105d

Not copyrightable coding

Prior_Industry@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 103d

Lazehaxxing

Rivalarrival@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 104d

Shit.

whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 103d

Slinging slop

KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 104d

Slopulator

Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 103d

Slode

Shayeta@feddit.org · 0 pts · 104d

We don't do vibe coding here, we do agentic engineering. 😎

just_another_person@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 105d

Clop Slop

Also, possibly an STI? "They got the Clop Slop!"

Edit: Actually, I think just "Clop" works

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 105d

Mother fucking