Comment by mathgeek
Comment by mathgeek 7 days ago
> Vibe engineered
While I'm all for vibe coding as appropriate, there's a lot of humor to be found it calling it engineering. :D
Comment by mathgeek 7 days ago
> Vibe engineered
While I'm all for vibe coding as appropriate, there's a lot of humor to be found it calling it engineering. :D
The first part is exactly my point, but the latter is nonsense in my book. You cannot ask VSCode (pre-AI) to write a program for you. It's akin to doing math with AI vs. an Nspire CAS. There's no reason to think you need to respond to those who shame vibe coding with claims that we shouldn't differentiate our tools, but we also shouldn't just say it's all the same. We wouldn't claim that about farming with a laser-powered weed killer compared to farming with a horse-drawn plow.
Fair. Though it seems that half of engineering is just giving a respectable name to whatever actually works.
I just hope actual engineers don't start vibe engineering bridges and buildings.
this is not something I came up with, Simon wrote it and I liked the differentiation between "vibe coding" where there is less effort
for this case project I think I would actually go back and say it's vibe coded, but I didn't want to just call it vibe coding because I did spend time going back and forth and directing the agent
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/vibe-engineering/