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People definitely are doing that. Anyone who is not a programmer and asks the LLM to write a program is doing exactly that. The LLM will do that itself behind t
by wrs 10mo ago
People definitely are doing that. Anyone who is not a programmer and asks the LLM to write a program is doing exactly that. The LLM will do that itself behind the scenes nowadays (yesterday Claude wrote a Python program when I simply asked it to give me the document it wrote in Word format!).
References: This is the original definition ("forget that the code even exists"). [0] Simon Willison wrote a much longer version of my comment. [1] He also suggested the term "vibe engineering" for the case where you are reviewing the LLM output. [2]
[0] https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383 https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383
[1] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/19/vibe-coding/ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/19/vibe-coding/
[2] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/vibe-engineering/ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/vibe-engineering/