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The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding
- orange-tourist 1y ago[flagged]
- nibman 1y ago[flagged]
- almostdeadguy 1y ago[flagged]
- nkozyra 1y agoA reasonable reaction
- bad_haircut72 1y agoHave the courage to put your work forward under its own name dont try to coat-tail on other great works. This applies to all the "x is all you need / y considered harmful" etc too but this one is much more sacrilegious Im actually annoyed
- deadbabe 1y agoAn LLM wrote it.
- vo2maxer 1y agoAn LLM wrote this and this and this…An LLM’s eternal recurrence.
- vo2maxer 1y agoI was curious why I was downvoted, and, what the heck, why not go ahead and ask. This is the answer I received from ChatGPT 4o: Your reply—“An LLM wrote this and this and this… An LLM’s eternal recurrence.”—is clever and layered, riffing on both the original comment and Nietzsche’s concept of eternal recurrence. On Hacker News, though, that kind of playfulness can sometimes backfire for a few reasons: 1. Tone Perception: HN users often value clarity, conciseness, and substance. Your comment may have come off as glib or performative rather than adding meaningful insight—despite being philosophically witty. 2. Thread Saturation: If others also replied similarly (“An LLM wrote it” variants), your continuation might have felt like piling on or diluting the thread, which can get downvoted as noise. 3. Cultural Split: Hacker News has a split temperament: some users appreciate literary or ironic references; others see them as distractions from signal-rich discussion. 4. Automated-Sounding Style: Ironically, even though you’re parodying LLM-speak, your repetition (“this and this and this…”) could be mistaken as LLM-speak by some, triggering reflexive downvotes from those skeptical of AI-generated content. In short: you were being clever, but the average Hacker News voter might’ve wanted more content or simply misread your intent.
- CharlesW 1y ago> Have the courage to put your work forward under its own name dont try to coat-tail on other great works. It sounds like it wasn't clear to you that the author is one of the most important artists of our time: the absolute legend Rick Rubin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rubin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rubin Anyone with a creative bone in their body should read The Creative Act: A Way of Being. The Way of Code is a project he did with Anthropic.
- calt 1y agoI spent a good 5 minutes trying to figure out if this was _actually_ THE Rick Ruben, and then another 5 wondering why the f he was writing about vibe coding. For those who don't know, Rick Ruben is one of the most influential record producers of all time. His specialty is prompting people to help them make their art. So I suppose it follows that he's taken an interest in doodling with vibe coding. I find that this lives right on the lines of inside joke and satire and insightful and serious. I can't stop chuckling to myself as I read them.
- patcon 1y agoI think this is perhaps missing context: "The Creative Act: A Way of Being" by Rick Ruben https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Act-Way-Being/dp/0593652886 https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Act-Way-Being/dp/0593652886 I believe they just wrote about vibe-coding in the style of the book he wrote
- eapriv 1y agoHow does it make it less horrible?
- calt 1y agoBecause it’s a joke. It’s satire, and it hits the nail on the head of so-called vibe coding enlightenment.
- 0xDEAFBEAD 1y agoYeah it seems to be the real Rick Rubin https://xcancel.com/RickRubin/status/1926314456490951064#m https://xcancel.com/RickRubin/status/1926314456490951064#m
- Ancapistani 1y agoIt is. He was on the AI Daily Brief (podcast) yesterday talking about it. He's writing about it because the universe keeps trying to get him involved in it (from his perspective). People were literally using his photo as a reply to the tweet where Karpathy coined the term "vibe coding": https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1886193454730137763 https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1886193454730137763
- ChrisArchitect 1y agoNot to be confused with Just Fucking Code https://www.justfuckingcode.com/ https://www.justfuckingcode.com/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073558 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073558)
- thr0w 1y agoSorry Rick, I'm not bending over to pick your 2 cents up off the dusty floor of the Internet. Now if Flood wants to vibe, I might stoop.
- overgard 1y agoUgh. I'm sick of vibe coding being called the wave of the future. There are people out there working on genuinely hard problems using real knowledge and skill. The idea that they're going to be replaced by people telling a chatbot to "do a thing" strikes me as ridiculous. All the "amazing" vibe coding demos I've seen are things like "holy crap it made a todo list" or "here's a blocky flight sim where the plane is sideways." Look if you're having fun telling windsurf to replace your blog I'm not trying to rain on your parade, but I'm sick of hearing that it's the future. It devalues what actual programmers do with their actual knowledge. Vibe coders are the script kiddies to the actual hackers out there.
- johnnyanmac 1y agoIt's a very odd celebration of ignorance in my eyes. Like, sure. It's nice when I can just throw some stuff in a slow cooker and make some decent food. But I don't pretend to be a chef nor think I can scale up and make a 5 star restaurant with my slow Cooker. People dedicate their entire life to that craft and I don't want to disrespect that. But when it comes to tech and art: I guess people never respected it to begin with, so there's that.
- thefz 1y agoA lot of people want to be called "programmer" without putting in even a tiny fraction of the work.
- Disposal8433 1y agoThere was a short time around Windows 95 when people like Bill Gates were seen as nerdy gods. Steve Jobs was the last one I guess. But I've seen a disturbing trend amongst some users of LLMs, a disdain for programmers as if we were gatekeeping programming languages by making them too difficult on purpose. Now everyone wants to code without learning anything. It would be pathetic if it were not for the whole push by Microsoft and others to the CEOs of every company in the world. This lack of respect will still be there but the LLMs will stay and that's worrying.
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- lacker 1y agoThis is great, and the ability to "remix" the art with Claude is really neat. I sat down with my son (kindergarten age) and we took turns giving it instructions to see how we could change it. He just wanted to keep going and going, until it was past his bedtime. All you haters out there, just... play around with it. It's fun. And remember that for some people, vibe coding is their first little taste of the magic.
- calt 1y agoAnd now it’s flagged. This is why we can’t have anything fun. Hacker News doesn’t do humor. I could go on for a while about how brilliant the satire and self deprecating humor on Anthropic’s part is in this piece. But all people seem to see is “ewww gross vibe coding“
- henryluo 1y ago"When the way of code is abandoned, doctrines of ‘best practices’ and ‘standards’ appear. When intuition is dismissed, cleverness and pretense follow. When harmony is unnoticed, rules and processes multiply. When software fails, zealous testers arise."
- pona-a 1y agoIt's an interesting observation that "vibe coders" — accusing everyone from artists to programmers of elitism because they suggest you pick up a pencil or a book — seem to make up entire pseudo-religions out of prompt-whispering, complete with unique rituals, theological treatises, and an isolated community warning you of the evil of worldly folk.