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
https://www.businessinsider.com/claude-code-creator-boris-cherny-vibe-coding-anthropic-ai-2026-5
156 Comments
AresUII@lemmy.world · 230 pts · 105d
Code laundering
veeesix@lemmy.ca · 70 pts · 105d
Claundering?
Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org · 16 pts · 105d
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
Fauxgramming
TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca · 21 pts · 105d
This one is too good to catch on
rosco385@lemmy.wtf · 9 pts · 105d
You just know most people would pronounce it "foxgramming" and not get it.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 105d
FoxCode with Bill AI'Riley
yakko@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 104d
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
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
plagiarism as a service
blackjam_alex@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 105d
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
Autoclanking
scarabic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 105d
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
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
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
fuckin' Clown Code.
Etterra@discuss.online · 1 pts · 104d
I like it, it adds insult without sacrificing meaning.
paraphrand@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 105d
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
Cuck coding.
QueenFern@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 105d
Winner!
boboliosisjones@feddit.nu · 0 pts · 104d
Nice.
arcine@jlai.lu · 27 pts · 104d
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
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
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
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
Slopmaxxing
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 2 pts · 103d
Ooo, this unironically lmao
Scrollone@feddit.it · 18 pts · 104d
spongebue@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 105d
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
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
Fauxding
dox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 104d
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
slop cobbling
laranis@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 105d
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
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
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
Cuck Coding
Pappabosley@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 104d
Oh yeah, code it so good
gankouskhan@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 104d
Deestan@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 105d
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
rhubarb@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 103d
Vowel Movements
Greg@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 105d
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
tristynalxander@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 104d
Kaligalis@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 104d
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
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