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No, they're not.

"A key part of the definition of vibe coding is that the user accepts code without full understanding.[1] Programmer Simon Willison said: 'If an LLM wrote every line of your code, but you've reviewed, tested, and understood it all, that's not vibe coding in my book—that's using an LLM as a typing assistant.'"

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding)

> The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy, a computer scientist who served as the director of artificial intelligence at Tesla.

And...?



I wasn't familiar with his full message, so I didn't realize that the current definition of vibe coding was so cynical. Many of us don't see it that way.




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