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That's what I've saying forever. All of a sudden, everyone's thinking being a software engineer is just all about writing code. In fact, coding is easiest thing for devs. And to be honest, I think everyone's misunderstanding the term "vibe coding" so much that if you use any AI tools in your workflow, you're labeled a vibe coder. That's not Andrej karpathy meant when he coined this term.

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Just to be clear, I don't think there's anything fundamentaly wrong with using AI to write code.

But just to make sure I got this right, I looked it up on Wikipedia:

> "Karpathy described it as "fully giving in to the vibes, embracing exponentials, and forgetting that the code even exists."

> "A key part of the definition of vibe coding is that the user accepts code without full understanding"

> "If an LLM wrote every line of your code, but you've reviewed, tested, and understood it all, that's not vibe coding in my book—that's using an LLM as a typing assistant."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding

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