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Claude Code's creator is sick of the phrase 'vibe coding.' Suggest your alternative here.
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this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
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Fauxgramming
This one is too good to catch on
You just know most people would pronounce it "foxgramming" and not get it.
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"Aggressively de-skilling while simultaneously shitting out tech debt"
Doesn't roll off the tongue as well, though.
"Slopping"
Tech debt
They vibe code Claude code. So I can see why.
They literally accidentally open-sourced it, because they vibe code their devops. They have unusually low server uptime, because they vibe code their infrastructure. These jokes write themselves.
Fraud coding.
How about VaaS (Vulnerability as a Service)
Oh no, yet another slop marketeer (CxO, whatever) is unhappy that we're treating their cash cow with derision. How awful for you.
Pipe down and go back to your clankwanking.
- Subscription coding.
- It looks like you're writing an app. Can I help you with that?
- CrappyCodey
- Clueless coding
- Klutz code
- Mañana coding
- Brain-free coding
- Developerless development
- Self-driving systems
- Humanity-free development
- If claude can do this it can replace management next
- Claude codepirated
- Good luck copywriting this intellectual property theft
- AI pwned
- I never really understood the codebase in the first place
- Blagger's code
- I'm so much more valuable to my employer now that I've outsourced all that tedious thinking, understanding and creating I used to do.
Clueless coding is the perfect term.
Who gives a flying fuck what terms one asshole is sick of? Fuck him, fuck vibe coding and trying to enforce language that appeals to what "elite" dipshits like.
I vote "schlopp summoning"
Vibe coding. Boris can go vibe himself.
"Call it what you like, you're still going to need us" Code.
It's just really high level BASIC with much looser syntax. It doesn't mean my boss could use it, any more than they could use the "no code" rubbish, BASIC, C, Fortran or Assembly that came before it.
If your job was taking really detailed technical specifications and turning it into something a computer can read, then you might be in trouble. But my job was always deciphering the nonsense amalgamations of customers, sales people, and managers, figuring out what the actual requirement is, determine the simplest thing that could handle that, and write it in such a way that the inevitable changes that they request won't be too painful to add.
Sloperating?
- Slopcoding
- Poopslopping
- Anti-environment laziness
What do you prefer? Code theft? Compiled slop? Inefficient shambling?
codeshittication
- Slopcoding
- Codeslopping
- Spaghetticoding
- "Good luck trying to figure this out in 2 years" Coding
Vibe coding will do just fine. I understand your concern over your product and its reputation but I don't really share that with you.
Lobotomy as a Service.
SLOP++
Ass-coding
I like to pronounce it very German in my environment, which becomes Klaut Kot. Steals Feces. It's quite fitting tbh.
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Script Kiddie is the derogatory term for hackers that download tools and have no idea what they are doing.
Prompt kiddies
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I read all the way to "is beginning to annoy him." and immediately stopped giving a fuck.
Clanker code.
Software piracy
NOT - coding.
And we're sick of all this AI bullshit, so what?
Slop coding
Automated bullshiting?
Clippy coding! Newer coders won't get the reference, older coders can hold it with the same scorn.
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