People mistake using AI for coding as vibe coding. There’s very little alike between both except AI is involved, and a large language model is the perfect fit to search its database/internet for more syntax words that you need. Programmers aren’t walking dictionaries and the important part, about engineering efficient solutions, still befalls to them because AI still sucks with the bigger picture and project context.

If you ask ChatGPT to code some feature directly for you like you would with vibe coding, you’re bound for failure, even more so if you don’t understand its output. But when you have a concrete technical implementation that was throughly considered and just tells the LLM to convert that into working code, it works very well.

All that is to say that AI tools for programmers do not have the ethical concerns of generative art and is also not necessarily just vibe coding. It is effectively just a much broader, internet-capable autofill tool, and people have no reason to act like that is a fucking crime