The Vibe Coding Edition
On YOLO-ing your codebase, "linting," and the new tool I built so you can do it too.
Noah here. Last week, a client asked me if I’d join a meeting they were having and spend 10 or 15 minutes talking about “vibe coding.”
For the uninitiated, most people were introduced to the term by Andrej Karpathy, a legend in the world of A, and the first person who really got me excited about AI 15 years ago. On February 2nd, he tweeted:
There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.
Why is this interesting?
