Great, yet another hyped up word to keep the AI hype going...
I respect Karpathy, but I can’t shake the feeling that recently has been doing more damage than good to the AI community. First he came up with “vibecoding“ and now this one. What we need is better engineering approaches to build AI systems, not buzzy marketing words that only benefit AI companies.
Vibecoding is an excellent term, its communicates that the output and process is not entirely serious. I think without this term we would have even more PM types announcing that programming is dead and you just need a business person with some prompts copied off linkedin.
I think this gives room for non technical people to vibecode prototypes, knowing that the output will eventually go off the rails without technical understanding.
writing an essay on this if you'd be interested in reading a rough draft. i believe this very strongly and i think it's the UX that got us here and it's UX that'll take us out.
Honestly, I don’t think it’s about AI even. The world has become so cynical, that’s just how people make business now. If it wasn’t context engineering, it’d be professional Watermelonism.
I respect Karpathy, but I can’t shake the feeling that recently has been doing more damage than good to the AI community. First he came up with “vibecoding“ and now this one. What we need is better engineering approaches to build AI systems, not buzzy marketing words that only benefit AI companies.