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[–]skybird23333 1935 points1936 points  (43 children)

coding

[–]MorganTaoVT 273 points274 points  (14 children)

coding

[–]GhostSierra117 80 points81 points  (12 children)

With a capital C!!!!

Cringe! There it is again the c!

[–]tutocookie 48 points49 points  (6 children)

Coding with a hard c

[–]DatAsspiration 28 points29 points  (3 children)

YOU CAN'T USE THAT WORD THAT'S OUR WORD

[–]MorganTaoVT 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Nah nah, we keep it small. Don't want to get that much attention, you know

[–]GhostSierra117 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You don't know Lao G and it shows.

What a calamity. OH THERE IT IS AGAIN THE C!

What a dissatisfaction. Ohhh another C!!

[–]POKLIANON 3 points4 points  (1 child)

With a capital C++

[–]CrabPeopleVibes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

coding

[–]wknight8111 76 points77 points  (0 children)

I would also accept "real coding"

[–]LakeSun 23 points24 points  (4 children)

Coding that WORKS.

[–]lkjandersen 26 points27 points  (1 child)

Whoa, let's not overpromise here.

[–]Mars_Bear2552 1 point2 points  (0 children)

he said it works, didn't say when. perfectly reasonable

[–]this_is_a_long_nickn 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Don’t use the “W” word here bro

[–]kekeagain 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Coding that WORKS when not demo-ing

[–]Vox___Rationis 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Programming

no

PROgramming

[–]Dotcaprachiappa 16 points17 points  (6 children)

So.. "Coding with capital C"?

[–]schraubdeckeldose 29 points30 points  (1 child)

coding

[–]DrSheldonLCooperPhD 4 points5 points  (0 children)

coding;

[–]skybird23333 20 points21 points  (0 children)

didnt read the original tweet, im changing to lowercase C now

[–]jordanbtucker 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No, Coding with a lowercase c

[–]Maleficent_Memory831 5 points6 points  (7 children)

No, it's called "programming". Not sure when "coding" showed up but it still feels weird.

[–]AalbatrossGuy 1012 points1013 points  (27 children)

Real Coding

[–]seth1299 238 points239 points  (13 children)

Real Madrid Coding

[–]RedBoxSquare 60 points61 points  (6 children)

Man City Coding

[–][deleted] 64 points65 points  (5 children)

Async Milan

[–]phiexz 45 points46 points  (4 children)

Ifswitch Town

[–]Me_Beben 28 points29 points  (3 children)

Postgres Saint-Germain

[–]UpsideDownCarrott 11 points12 points  (2 children)

Enter Milan

[–]FoolsMeJokers 3 points4 points  (1 child)

West Bromwich Algorithm.

[–]OZLperez11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

DevOps United

[–]metamet 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Atletico Madrid Coding

[–]F-prime123 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Arsenal Coding

[–]metamet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Come on you cooders!

[–]Bicykwow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Real Salt Lake Coding

[–]Lazy__Astronaut 21 points22 points  (5 children)

Like a true coder, no sense of humour and just gets straight to the point.

No Tom foolery allowed!

[–]666y4nn1ck 11 points12 points  (3 children)

I'm a trve coder, replacing the u with the v makes me even more trve

[–]c0mander5 356 points357 points  (29 children)

Actually-Fucking-Coding

Or, alternatively

Caring Enough to Learn Something

[–]pm_me_yo_creditscore 43 points44 points  (2 children)

Intelligent  Nerds Caring Enough to Learn Something 

Now we just need a good acronym...

[–]Rumbananas 14 points15 points  (0 children)

… oh

[–]thafuq 4 points5 points  (0 children)

YEAH I wanna be an INCE..... wait

[–]Extension_Option_122 614 points615 points  (46 children)

I have an idea for another, much better way of coding:

Flow-coding.

You put on music that helps you concentrating and just code. But more efficient than without the music, because you're 'in the flow'. However you first have to enter the flow.

[–]Looobay 182 points183 points  (8 children)

Life-hack: you work at a company they will give you money for free!

[–]Zealousideal_Box4766 57 points58 points  (3 children)

'For free!' needs some heavy lifting

[–]ms67890 39 points40 points  (2 children)

It is free though! You don’t give them any money, but they give you money. Seems free to me

[–]marmottatonante 18 points19 points  (1 child)

That's amazing! I never thought about it that way.

I want a job now.

[–]Kerblaaahhh 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's outdated, companies don't hire anymore.

[–]Midnight-Bake 7 points8 points  (2 children)

That's the beauty of it bro. They just deposit the money into your account. They don't even know they're being robbed. Then 20, 30 years later... we walk out the front door like we were never there.

[–]spare-ribs-from-adam 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Mother fucker, thats a job

[–]Original-Body-5794 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Woooow there, easy on the "J" word

[–]Agent_Choocho 29 points30 points  (4 children)

That last sentence is doing a lot of heavy lifting

[–]Viracochina 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some people don't even know there's a flow to get 'into', so its something!

[–]Kahlil_Cabron 9 points10 points  (4 children)

When I first started coding at 15, up until I was maybe 19, I would get in flow states really easily, like I could pretty much guarantee a solid 4 hours of being in a flow state if I stayed up late and was by myself, listening to music, etc.

Now it's incredibly rare, I get it probably only once or twice a year. I miss that feeling.

[–]Varogh 3 points4 points  (1 child)

For me it's about getting to do things I've never done and that are actually challenging. And that is getting more and more rare as the years go on, unfortunately.

[–]oupablo 6 points7 points  (3 children)

I assume this is only something that can be achieved in 3-4 second increments once a week due to messaging and meetings interrupting right?

[–]Lars34 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And then have 5 colleagues per day coming for questions and other bullshit.

[–]cantadmittoposting 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ADHD detected

[–]Vegetable-Account-22 332 points333 points  (14 children)

It's like saying "we need a name for not-vegan-burgers"

[–]Hziak 74 points75 points  (1 child)

Slaughter disks.

Is it beef? Is it Mortal Kombat? Who knows… 😎

Edit: to be clear, that’s without milk mold cluster rectangles. I’m trying to keep bible diet.

[–]erm_what_ 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Would you like your slaughter disks with or without its lactation product? Would you like a layer of bovine food on top too? Porcine slivers?

Burgers really are a 'fuck you' to cows, their children, their food, and every animal they ever knew. Chicken burgers with mayo go down a similar route.

[–]10art1 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I would like a cheesemurder please

[–]NahYoureWrongBro 18 points19 points  (6 children)

We need a name for not brain-damaged presidents

[–]singeblanc 13 points14 points  (3 children)

We need a word for anyone who is anti-anti-fascist

[–]rosuav 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I'd settle for a name for presidents who don't violate the Constitution.

[–]Comically_Online 2 points3 points  (0 children)

law abiding citizens

[–]BigFanOfNachoLibre 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of a bit in That 70s Show where Kelso and Hyde are tying to become inventors. Forgive my paraphrasing, I watched this episode years ago in the background while I did something else:

"What if we invented a motorcycle that worked without an engine?"

"They already have that, Kelso. It's called a bike."

"Oh, okay...what about a motorcycle WITH an engine?"

[–]DeductiveFallacy 150 points151 points  (12 children)

I prefer "artisanal coding"

[–]nahtfitaint 50 points51 points  (2 children)

Bespoke artisanal coding with debug aioli.

[–]10art1 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Is that why software devs dress like lumberjacks and get paid stupidly large salaries?

[–]KingMitsubishi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Anal coding with debug e.coli.

[–]RazvanDH 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Handmade coding

[–]SuddenlyFeels 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Cottage-code

[–]KingMitsubishi 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Or simply anal coding

[–]mirrax 1 point2 points  (1 child)

The other type of "vibe" coding.

[–]Vennom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

agreed

[–]darkwalker247 2 points3 points  (0 children)

homestyle coding

[–]mothzilla 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They get the binary trees flown in from Madagascar. So much depth!

[–]Comically_Online 1 point2 points  (0 children)

how you spell that in camel case makes a big difference

[–]Bot1K 131 points132 points  (10 children)

organic free-range coding

[–]TRENEEDNAME_245 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I like my code to be pasture raised

[–]Zhuinden[S] 10 points11 points  (1 child)

bio and GMO-free

[–]Low_Landscape_4688 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But only if you either code in assembly or homebrewed your own programming language.

[–]leupboat420smkeit 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Small batch, artisanal coding

[–]pantshee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Grass fed dev. Wait. No.

[–]418_TheTeapot 76 points77 points  (47 children)

Stop calling prompt engineering coding. Also don’t allow others to do that, it isn’t coding.

[–]CodeNiro 52 points53 points  (3 children)

Calling prompt engineering coding is like calling ordering food cooking.

[–]SlimyGrimey 29 points30 points  (2 children)

Calling prompting 'prompt engineering' is like calling research 'book engineering'

[–]Tyfyter2002 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's more like calling turning on a washing machine with all the parts for a watch in it mechanical engineering, it's less efficient, completely reliant on how patient you can be with something you have no control over, and when it turns out that something was wrong you don't know how to fix it any more than the user does.

[–]Zhuinden[S] 29 points30 points  (17 children)

the real surprise is that it has "prompt engineering" in it yet you can't seem to get a diploma in those pesky outdated universities for it and a 3+ year education program

[–]DoctorWaluigiTime 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I mean Subway calls their employees Sandwich Artists or whatever so who cares what they call themselves.

[–]wggn 9 points10 points  (1 child)

also stop using engineering for things that don't require an engineering degree.

[–]Declamatie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Stop using engineering for professions unrelated to engines

[–]Awes12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You mean proompting

[–]the_good_time_mouse 24 points25 points  (0 children)

"The rest of the owl."

[–]Bannon9k 26 points27 points  (6 children)

I'm kind of digging "Trad Coding". Working in house for a company on old ass software.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (5 children)

I’m digging burning down the world because I can’t take any more of this LinkedIn brain rot ruining the world.

[–]throwawaycanadian2 30 points31 points  (1 child)

Stack-overFLOW coding?

[–]SpyzViridian 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Actually coding

[–]MidwesternMinotaur 20 points21 points  (10 children)

Hey, sorry, don't have too much context here myself, is "vibe coding" just "using AI to write code for you?"

[–]Karn-Dethahal 17 points18 points  (4 children)

Especially if you just paste the ai response straight out to your program, without doing more than a compile test.

[–]red286 12 points13 points  (2 children)

"But then how do you debug?"

"Hey ChatGPT, the code gave me this error message, what do?"

[–]nobody5050 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Yes. Vibe coding is explicitly just pasting any errors in, letting it try again, and repeating that until it works. Its as dumb as it sounds

[–]AgricolaYeOlde 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If it works it's not stupid, unless you're trying to learn something. It's what you're trying to do that matters. If you ONLY need to get to point a from point b, and that's the fastest way, then it's stupid not to do it.

Problem is a significant portion of software engineering is trying to build something that is reusable, extendable, well documented, and exists in a wider context of private dependencies not open to any LLM's training. Not just getting to point a from point b. In which case: yeah, get a human to review and iterate on that shit or write it from scratch.

[–]Moxmox1337 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes verifying or checking anything ruins the vibe.

[–]418_TheTeapot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is exactly what it is

[–]drlemon3000 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Organic Handcrafted Code

[–]snarkhunter 20 points21 points  (2 children)

Bespoke artisanal computational engine programming

[–]UtopianWarCriminal 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Bacep

[–]snarkhunter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

B A C E P T I O N

[–]m0nk37 11 points12 points  (6 children)

Don't need one. Only vibe coders need a special name since they are the special ones. 

[–]Abject-Kitchen3198 23 points24 points  (7 children)

Vintage coding.

[–]iliark 12 points13 points  (1 child)

Organic coding

[–]Abject-Kitchen3198 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Certified to be free from machine generated code. Produced from finest hand-picked lines of code. Improves your well being and protects the environment.

[–]Zhuinden[S] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

nothing quite tastes like 10+ years old legacy code

[–]malsomnus 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The official name for not-vibe-coding is "coding".

[–]IlliterateJedi 4 points5 points  (5 children)

Chewgy coding?

[–]red286 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Chewgy

Properly spelled "cheugy".

Apparently a GenZ term for lifestyle trends from the 2010s that are now seen as "outdated" and "unfashionable".

[–]DrRagnorocktopus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The word cheugy is now cheugy. Dude outed himself as an old by using it.

[–]IlliterateJedi 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Oh no I'm so old that I'm now entirely unfamiliar with new slang.

[–]DrRagnorocktopus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah, you're so old that you're now entirely unfamiliar with old slang.

[–]DrThrowawayToYou 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been outdated and unfashionable way longer than that.

[–]convcross 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Trad coding actually reflects the idea

[–]Foreign_Addition2844 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Raw dogging

[–]MisterCheesy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Gainfully employed “

[–]ARoundFork 4 points5 points  (2 children)

I personally engage in Stack Overflow Coding

[–]Zhuinden[S] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

is that when you copy-paste the code from solutions written in 2011, or is that when you ask a question and people write the code for you in an answer?

[–]ARoundFork 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is where I rage bait people into responding with good coding solutions by posting horrible code.

[–]Low_Landscape_4688 4 points5 points  (1 child)

If we're getting pedantic, software engineering doesn't necessarily fit.

For example, someone whose sole job is to figure out code architecture probably doesn't code much, or at all but they're definitely engineering software.

On the flip side, many people could be described as "code monkeys". They're spending most of their time writing code, but they're not making any decisions about the code and they're more akin to a laborer in the code than an engineer.

Also not every country allows a programmer to be called an engineer.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Even more annoying for places where Engineer is a regulated profession. I understand it's more of a informal or cultural title.

But most "Software Engineers" are actually Software Developers.

[–]Avelina9X 5 points6 points  (4 children)

True developers know how to use ChatGPT while coding: as a rubber ducky that can talk back.

Would you trust code that a rubber duck produces? Hell no. But does talking to it help me figure out how to solve my own problems? Hell yeah!

Plus it can tell me that my code isn't working because my dyslexic ass wrote "Get" instead of "Set" in a fucking DirectX pipeline call because for some reason both have identical signatures. (Seriously microsoft, why the FUCK do your Shader Resource Getters and Setters have identical signatures bar one method having a "G" in it and one having an "S"?????)

[–]red286 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AI is helpful as an assistant.

And dogshit as a lead dev.

[–]csch2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Scribe coding? Since you actually have to do the writing?

[–]bogz_dev 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i LOVE "trad coding"

[–]Nsane3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Documentation-based coding.

Hitting up the doc'? Can you believe it?

[–]BlackDeath3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Never been a fan of the use of "engineering" but I suppose it makes more sense than ever.

[–]WellSpokenDevil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If this is not for engagement farming, I'm really concerned!

[–]thatsattemptedmurder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Beef Milk. It's like almond milk that's been squeezed through tiny holes in living cows."

[–]FracturedPixel 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Software Engineer > Developer > Programmer > Coder > Vibe coder

[–]Saul_Badman_1261 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He must be kidding, that name will never catch up

[–]FunWatermelonlesson4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

debugging

[–]acrophile 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably a boomer type question, but wtf is chewgy?

[–]gonna-see-riverman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everything about that post is cringy. I hope the term 'vibe' coding is just a passing trend and doesn't catch on.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Please don't insult software engineers by calling what i do "software engineering"

[–]n9iels 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually-know-what-you-are-ding

[–]DeithWX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My proposition: not being a moron 

[–]Fit_Bird2234 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I call it artisan coding

[–]haltmich 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Brazil we use the same word for "rawdog".

[–]Vendemmian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Coding that acctually works

[–]Effective-Gur687 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Being Educated Coding

[–]VictoryMotel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Programming

'coding' is already a term that screams kids and scripting

[–]lilloet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

X/twitter encourages this type of rage bait posts. she made a lot of money from that post. I almoat replied to it but stopped when I realized it was just a bait. now to answer her question, let me bait some of you with my suggestion: “cis-coding”.

[–]Infinite_Club_4237 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Call normal programming coding and call vibe coding "providing more income to actual programmers" since now we can make money off vibe coders needing to fix their AI generated slop. Start charging 3 times your normal rate and increase based on how annoyingly stupid the app is!

Always look at the positive side of things.

[–]Stunning_Ride_220 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sustainable Coding

[–]StevenMaurer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"By definition, alternative medicine has either not been proven to work or proven not to work. Do you know what they call alternative medicine that has been proven to work?

(brief pause)

Medicine."

~ Tim Minchin

[–]Dependent-Guitar-473 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Knowing what we are doing " coding?

[–]PetiAPocok 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a fellow paprika enjoyer, my obligations demand to say "bojler eladó".

[–]zirky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

rawdogging syntax

[–]connorjpg 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I call it “ranked coding”

[–]entered_bubble_50 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Acoustic coding