Ask HN: Can we please come up with a better name than "Vibe Coding"?

Broadside coding?

It appropriately invokes the scattershot nature of generative tooling (“this code couldn't parse the broadside of a barn”) and the violent and malicious nature of the ones in-control of such things (“I stumbled on an indie site! Bring the broadside to bear! All scrapers, free-fire!”)…

All the best,

-HG

"Better" could mean two very different things here depending on whether you think vibe coding is a good idea or not.

I thought the whole point was to give it as cringy name as possible to discourage people from using AI and instead learn to program properly. It was called prompt engineering before but I suppose it didn't sound discouraging enough.

Why? I think it sounds cool. Are you embarrassed that it doesn't sound "corporate" enough?

I don't think "vibe coding" deserves a better name.

PS. The existence itself of a name not containing "AI" (itself) is a telltale sign of AI becoming "normalized" (ie. "commonplace" ...)

Barf coding?

Vibe Copy-and-Pasting?

It can only get worse.

Entropy feeding

nope. why should people put more care into the name than into the product the process actually creates?

No! I love it.

No, that isn't how language works.

Besides, we already have to take "enshittification" seriously as a technical term of art, I don't see why "vibe coding" should be improved upon.

Butt-plug coding?