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"Vibecoding" is about how you use AI tools, rather than who you are.

If you're asking the AI to generate large amounts of code that you don't really look at, you're definitely vibecoding. If you are mainly writing the code yourself with some assistance from AI tools, you are not vibecoding.

Naturally it's fuzzy in the middle. And for people without software development skills, vibecoding is the only option they have.

Steve Yegge has been a dev for several decades with lead spots at Amazon and Google, has completely converted to using AI, wrote a book about it using it effectively for large production-ready projects, and still calls it vibe coding.

I don't think I'll ever adopt this term, I'm not a fan of it at all. I find myself saying "I was working with AI" and just leave it at that. It is a collaboration afterall.

As a software developer over 30 years, AI is not a tool, it is not deterministic, it is an aide.

Don't have it do things for you. Have it do things with you.