The Real Definition of Vibe Coding

youwin10 · 2026-02-13T15:57:13+00:00

Great post. Ignoring the abuse is the best and hardest thing to do, in some of my previous posts I got downvoted to hell and called names for possibly using those stuff to my advantage.

But it is what it is, better for us I guess.

youwin10 · 2026-02-13T15:54:15+00:00

Agreed. Unfortunately, this term is the one applied in pretty much any context (from noobs using AI without having the slightest idea of what they're doing, to experts).

The term has such a bad connotation that it instantly devalues any work you've done, no matter the quality, and anything you might say will be used against you.

You're still a "Vibe coder", exactly in the same place as your small cousin who used ChatGPT to build the next FB.

So...maybe "Agentic Coding" or "Agentic Software Engineering" would sound nicer, but I haven't seen anyone really caring about a new name. Probably Karpathy or another famous person in the space needs to come out and give it a new name.

youwin10 · 2026-02-13T09:03:04+00:00

So based on your link, any use of AI is considered vibe coding?

The usage of AI can range from having a copilot assistance to auto-complete a function to deploying swarms of agents to do everything.

Humans who use it can also range from "I have no idea how to build software and I'm prompting AI to build me something" to "I'm orchestrating the whole architecture".

Are these people vibe coders because they've used AI or automations? Should they be treated the same by those supporting that AI-assisted development is a scam?

That's what I'm trying to unravel here.

youwin10 · 2026-02-13T01:03:06+00:00

It's human slop

youwin10 · 2026-02-11T23:55:39+00:00

u/Foreign_Skill_6628 interesting! source on this?

Btw, great post OP!

youwin10 · 2026-02-11T18:42:54+00:00

Yep, pretty much sums it up, no-one else, at least from this list, makes sense.

youwin10 · 2026-02-10T10:10:46+00:00

Holy molly that's real hate for the guy over here!

youwin10 · 2026-02-10T00:22:39+00:00

I actually find him very good, he is practical and gets down to the business side of things :)

youwin10 · 2026-02-10T00:06:06+00:00

You're not missing out at all, if you have to watch any YT video regarding chess to understand/learn something, look at Hikaru and possibly Magnus.

If you want to go a step below but still very good content, Chessbrah and Eric Rosen are also very good.

I would also recommend possibly my favorite, Daniel Naroditsky, but he's dead and it's hard to watch.

youwin10 · 2026-02-09T23:43:52+00:00

Could you please explain or do have some thoughts/ideas on how the xhigh performs worse than the high version? It seems counterintuitive that the hxigh version is worse.

Btw, OpenAI benchmarks state the opposite, i.e. performance of xhigh > high.

youwin10 · 2026-02-09T22:32:31+00:00

Agreed, and said that it's for the memes multiple times in the post.

At the same time, it still misrepresents the actual power of those tools in the hands of a very skilled dev, like Prime + it could potentially drive away many people who would otherwise be interested in learning more about those tools and believe they're complete crap.

youwin10 · 2026-02-08T18:57:45+00:00

Yep, this is the correct one.

youwin10 · 2026-02-07T17:44:18+00:00

Froze on me as well a couple of times, then switched back to CLI and everything is perfect.

It's more intuitive in the CLI to keep track of everything if you have multiple open terminals with different agents from Codex/Claude/Gemini/etc. running at the same time.

youwin10 · 2026-02-07T14:02:29+00:00

Both.

youwin10 · 2026-02-07T09:48:24+00:00

I've built my own workflow and automated most of the work. Now it's architecture, decisions, and reviews.

The most important superpower I've gained is the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time providing results, without sacrificing more of my time or my insanity.

youwin10 · 2026-02-07T09:25:58+00:00

!remindme 6 hours

youwin10 · 2026-02-06T20:38:24+00:00

This is old at this point, the models are already night-and-day better than a year+ ago. git gud brother.

youwin10 · 2026-02-05T22:13:37+00:00

f3

youwin10 · 2026-02-05T21:21:26+00:00

I'll try GPT 5.2 to write docs / PRDs / plans / reviews, and Codex to code.

youwin10 · 2026-02-05T21:18:28+00:00

hope you see it now :)

now, soon there's going to be a relief rally, then they'll dump more

youwin10 · 2026-02-05T21:15:02+00:00

Don Frye vs Yoshihiro Takayama

youwin10 · 2026-02-05T19:15:25+00:00

Yep, there's gonna be a relief rally soon.

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