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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46594968

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Delta_V@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 87d

sloppy/paste

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 73 pts · 87d (1 reply)

Slop coding?

FizzyOrange@programming.dev · 17 pts · 87d

Or just "slopping" maybe? "Stop slopping up code."

Schal330@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 87d (1 reply)

I recall someone at some point calling it cuckoding, that gave me a chuckle.

altphoto@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 87d

Hey, if the coding gets out of place, you don't expect the IDE or the code it self to correct it. You gotta get in there and properly guide it in. Gotta give a helping hand to your AI bull.

jdr@lemmy.ml · 26 pts · 87d

Shit puking

hitmyspot@aussie.zone · 25 pts · 87d (1 reply)

Plaguerising. Like plagiarism but with added disease connotations.

kibiz0r@midwest.social · 5 pts · 87d

thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 87d (4 replies)

Microsoft: Stop saying "Ai slop".

We: OK Microslop.

Claude Code's creator: Stop saying "vibe coding".

We (hopefully): OK Vibethropic.

Edit: Typo corrected, misspelled Vibethropic as Vibetropic.

sleeplessone@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 86d (1 reply)

Vibethropic

Anslopic

onlinepersona@programming.dev · 9 pts · 86d

Anslopic is chef's kiss

eddiereasoner@mstdn.social · 2 pts · 87d (1 reply)

@thingsiplay @fubarx vibetropic or vibethropic?

thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 87d

Oops, it's corrected now.

mr_account@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 87d

Careless Coding

vext01@feddit.uk · 18 pts · 87d

Sloperating

9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 87d

How about Slaupe Code?

medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 87d (1 reply)

Nogramming?

Venat0r@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 87d

Noobgramming

wuphysics87@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 86d

Slop scripting

GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 87d (2 replies)

Considering the addictive potential, I would call it slot machine coding, Las Vegas coding or Casino coding

HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org · 11 pts · 87d

Casino coding is great!

DaleGribble88@programming.dev · 2 pts · 87d

This is my new preferred term!

imrighthere@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 87d

If it's pissing him off, why would I want an alternative ?

Janx@piefed.social · 15 pts · 86d

"Sloptimising"?

87Six@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 86d

Sloppin around

panzerk@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 87d

I'd daresay the creator is still sloptimistic.

nullify3112@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 87d

Tupperware engineering.

You put all the shit in a Tupperware and most likely will already have spoiled the next day; except it’s in a box now so you can’t see it or smell how bad it has gotten.

Not that at no point did the Tupperware go in the fridge.

quinkin@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 87d

Hallucicoding.

ruuster13@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 86d (1 reply)

software devolvement

HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org · 4 pts · 86d

Accelerated Software Decomposition

PokerChips@programming.dev · 7 pts · 86d

I've always called it "Fart Coding"

Because it's as easy as farting and usually pretty much stinks like a fart.

HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org · 7 pts · 86d

Entropy Injection

mod_pp@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 86d

Sloppy seconds

esc@piefed.social · 6 pts · 86d

He can use whatever word he wants, why should anyone care about his preferences?

ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 86d

Almost coding. So close ! I think...

hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 86d

Creative guessing

palordrolap@fedia.io · 3 pts · 87d

Sharded barf.

A phrase from an ancient meme, that is simultaneously unconnected and also weirdly apt. However you interpret those words.

The meme itself in video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb58GaJNpsA

entwine@programming.dev · 3 pts · 87d

Liabiliting

HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org · 3 pts · 86d

Autoclanking

fizzbang@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 87d

Shitting your whole ass

Hexagon@feddit.it · 3 pts · 87d

Stochastic parrot coding

Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 87d (1 reply)

prototyping

GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 86d

You are expected to throw away the prototype, but they want to use it in production. It is foolish.

vatlark@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 87d

Meanwhile Mistral named theirs 'vibe'

olafurp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 86d

Maybe they prefer vibe engineering

Kissaki@programming.dev · 1 pts · 86d

How about Probabalistic Geneating

Really, there's too much variance anyway, and it depends on what you want to address. They ask their chatbot and are not satisfied, and now ask for suggestions. Without defining what they want to find a term for specifically and what is important to them. Is that marketing or collaboration?

"Business Insider", with a piece about terminology, one person's interpretation, and asking for suggestions.

Cherny is an evangelist for AI-driven coding, recently saying for him, coding is "solved."

Either an expertise disqualification, or a question of what they understand "coding" to be. Surely they elaborated in the surrounding context of that statement? /s