Vibe engineering(simonwillison.net)

576 points by janpio 1 year ago | 612 comments

Simon Willison blog post proposing the term "vibe engineering" for experienced engineers using LLMs and coding agents while staying accountable for their code.

Scaling long-running autonomous coding(simonwillison.net)

165 points by srameshc 9 months ago | 89 comments

Reverse-engineering is cheap now(simonwillison.net)

23 points by edward 3 months ago | 13 comments

The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy(simonwillison.net)

618 points by lumpa 5 months ago | 401 comments

Simon Willison note on Zig's strict anti-LLM contribution policy and its rationale, noting Bun's fork of Zig and its AI-assisted compiler improvements.

AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it(simonwillison.net)

207 points by walterbell 8 months ago | 206 comments

Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built(simonwillison.net)

74 points by simonw 8 months ago | 39 comments

Vibe code is legacy code(blog.val.town)

653 points by simonw 1 year ago | 381 comments

Val Town blog post by Steve Krouse arguing that vibe-coded software, where developers ignore the code, is effectively legacy code nobody understands.

Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand(autodidacts.io)

134 points by Curiositry 20 days ago | 151 comments

A personal blog post on The Autodidacts arguing that vibecoding with AI is less satisfying than writing code by hand.

The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok(bramcohen.com)

541 points by drob518 6 months ago | 454 comments

Bram Cohen blog post arguing that the leaked Claude source code's poor quality reflects vibe coding dogfooding taken to cult-like extremes.

Breaking the spell of vibe coding(fast.ai)

367 points by arjunbanker 8 months ago | 293 comments

A fast.ai essay by Rachel Thomas arguing that vibe coding resembles a sinister variant of flow akin to gambling, and that human creativity and thinking still matter.

Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones(shokunin.studio)

105 points by riffraff 14 days ago | 118 comments

Shokunin Studio blog post examining attempts by AI enthusiasts to create vibe-coded clones of popular apps, especially Adobe Photoshop.

An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force(aftermath.site)

394 points by Doches 1 year ago | 362 comments

An Aftermath article about how generative AI tools like Midjourney and vibe coding are affecting video game developers and artists, described as a demoralizing force.