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Claude Code's creator is sick of the phrase 'vibe coding.' Suggest your alternative here.
(www.businessinsider.com)
It should insult Boris Cherny by name.
this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
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Code Vomit.
This is just so fitting.
I keep getting merge requests now from people that their whole job to date had been too scared by the syntax to try coding.
It's almost always a shotgun of way too many lines of code changed for a small thing, often with horrible side effects that would be unacceptable.
Someone wanted to tweak the CSS layout of one element, what should have been a one line change. The pull request had hundreds of css changes, basically touching everything. Clearly the model had started changing things and he kept saying it didn't do it yet until finally it did and it never rolled back anything it did, including many of the rules being repeated 5 times in a row in the same place..
They felt like AI was making them so helpful because they could submit a code change directly instead of just asking for what they want. They proudly said "AI told me:" and then explain the brilliance of the AI finding. One time the AI finding was addressed over 6 months prior, the AI never thought to update the software, but instead proposed a really crap workaround that would have failed to cover a whole class of similar scenarios while simultaneously imposing crazy side effects on scenarios that weren't tested.
I can use AI too, please just send me what you would have sent to the AI, and if AI can do it, I could use the AI. If you think the AI will figure out how you are using something wrong and don't want to bother/wait for a human to help, fine, but if it gets to what it thinks is a software bug, just rewind and start from your problem statement when you come to me...
I read all the way to "is beginning to annoy him." and immediately stopped giving a fuck.
SLOP++
Clanker code.
Lobotomy as a Service.
How about VaaS (Vulnerability as a Service)
Nothing wrong with "vibe coding", "prompting", "generating" or the other terms associated with using AI to generate something.
If you do proper quality assurance, and assume ownership and accountability it is your piece of work. If not, it's AI slop.
I'll say "vibe coding" to me implies the operator has zero awareness of the actual code, and there is something wrong.
They treat the actual program logic in the same way folks treat assembly code as some arcane black magic they don't have to think about. Problem is the tooling is not nearly so deterministic as a compiler, and the output is just too bad to be relied upon.
For certain clasesses of tasks, it may do a serviceable job, maybe at first. If you have ongoing evolution requirements, it can dig itself a whole that it can't really dig out of. It can't process the code that had been generated to extrapolate a code change to match the change request.
The GenAI coding needs supervision, and 'vibe coding' implies opting out of careful supervision.
Ass-coding
Spanking the code monkey.
What do you prefer? Code theft? Compiled slop? Inefficient shambling?
Jerking off.
NOT - coding.
My self-hosted LLM can suggest better names for anything!
Subscription fee is only $1m a minute, most answers are returned in about 3 hours, since I can't afford more RAM.
Subscription bugging.
Personally massaging the code
Tech debt
fuckin' Clown Code.
I like it, it adds insult without sacrificing meaning.
"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.
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.
- 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.
- Slopcoding
- Codeslopping
- Spaghetticoding
- "Good luck trying to figure this out in 2 years" Coding
codeshittication
- Slopcoding
- Poopslopping
- Anti-environment laziness
Script Kiddie is the derogatory term for hackers that download tools and have no idea what they are doing.
Prompt kiddies
At least kiddies can eventually learn, the biggest fans of these things are worse, they are MBAies
Clippy coding! Newer coders won't get the reference, older coders can hold it with the same scorn.
I like to pronounce it very German in my environment, which becomes Klaut Kot. Steals Feces. It's quite fitting tbh.
Before reading your explanation, to me, Klaut Kot sounded more like some deftige Gericht!
"Aggressively de-skilling while simultaneously shitting out tech debt"
Doesn't roll off the tongue as well, though.
"Slopping"
Automated bullshiting?
Sloperating?
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