Claude Code's creator is sick of the phrase 'vibe coding.' Suggest your alternative here.
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Code laundering
Claundering?
Claudering?
E: It's just the same as "to google" at this point.
Clodering?
Claubbering
Stumbling!
Fauxgramming
This one is too good to catch on
You just know most people would pronounce it "foxgramming" and not get it.
FoxCode with Bill AI'Riley
Fuckin' thing SUCKS
Fuck IT. We'll do it AI.
like faux news??
Ooh, that’s good.
You have won the internet.
Slop coding.
Crap coding
I was here to offer this. Maybe even vibe slopping
"Aggressively de-skilling while simultaneously shitting out tech debt"
Doesn't roll off the tongue as well, though.
"Slopping"
plagiarism as a service
PaaS
The egg dyeing company is gonna sue your ass. https://youtu.be/U0LzsThR2eI
Autoclanking
Yeah we just say clankering
Clankers gonna clank
I like that one!
Tech debt
Slopspreading
Slopping.
I hate that.... It's perfect.
muck spreading might also work imo
isn't vibe coding a term that comes from the ai bros themselves first? We would've used slop coding lol
Yeah, but the real developers regard it with disdain. I guess he thinks its only an image problem and a rebrand will fix it.
You think he just needs to reclaim it?
Shit coding?
fuckin' Clown Code.
I like it, it adds insult without sacrificing meaning.
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.
Cuck coding.
Winner!
Nice.
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 vote "schlopp summoning"
Vibe coding. Boris can go vibe himself.
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.
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.
"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?
Clueless coding is the perfect term.
Pseudocoding
no, no, no, biiig NO:
pseudo-code is an actual, useful tool in software development!
don't misappropriate that one!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudocode
Slopmaxxing
Ooo, this unironically lmao
What do you prefer? Code theft? Compiled slop? Inefficient shambling?
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.
It's better to see "vibe coders" think they're doing something cool rather than shameful. It'd be way easier to spot them like that (and prepare mentally for "their" code)
codeshittication
Lobotomy as a Service.
Fauxding
I really like this one! It fits well
Thanks! I think it sounds better than it spells but the spirit is there
SLOP++
slop cobbling
Can't unsee. 💕
LOL. I was thinking like a cobbler that makes shoes, and the phrase "cobbled together". But yeah, now I can't unsee it either and that's even funnier :)
I believe we have a winner!
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!
Ass-coding
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
Cuck Coding
Oh yeah, code it so good
Clod Coding
Creating clodpieces
Software piracy
And we're sick of all this AI bullshit, so what?
I read all the way to "is beginning to annoy him." and immediately stopped giving a fuck.
Clanker code.
NOT - coding.
Douche bagging
Slop coding
Automated bullshiting?
Clippy coding! Newer coders won't get the reference, older coders can hold it with the same scorn.
Slopware Engineering
poop tech
Slop coding
Jerking off.
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.
Vowel Movements
Shit coding Slop coding Hallucination coding Job security coding Your gonna regret this coding Delete all my data coding
Vibarrhea
I wonder how many of these people in this thread made their snarky comment and went right back to Claude Code
It’s not zero
Slop slapping
Ohh, I like that one
Shit scripting, or shitting
Hallucination Pandering.
Code shitting
code-vomiting
I've got no strong contenders.
"Blind coding" "Script slopping" "Junk writing" "Not knowing what you're doing, but it's fine because you also aren't capable of knowing what you're doing" "Slop slapping" (as in "I had a problem with my computer, so I slop slapped a solution on it") "Wasting GPU cycles so you can also waste CPU cycles"
Code sloppering
How about: "Producing unmaintainable slopcode"?
slop dig
pooding
Dildo code
Ok boomer, how about slop coding, or woke vibing?
Are those better for your snowflake ears? Or are you going to keep giving us free lists about which words hurt your feelings the most lol
Salting the earth
Spanking the code monkey.
Lets call it dogfucking
Subscription bugging.
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.
Agreed. I finally got around to setting up a system in a mostly isolated subnet to play with agentic coding recently, and I was reasonably surprised at how not awful the result was. Still won't trust the fuck to spit out anything without supervision.
All I wanted was to make a debug version of a FOSS app I use because the official app is lacking basic features. It took a few attempts, but it solved my issues and spat out an answer that was the minimum viable patch (after instructing it to do so and not edit a dozen unnecessary files) that looks reasonable. I never got into android apps, but I understand the syntax well enough to know it didn't do anything horribly out of pocket.
Rampant incompetence?
Before LLMs were a thing, my CS1 professor used to call it “The Big Bang Theory”: You write some code and then BANG! It works!
Of course, it doesn’t work, and the results are unpredictable bad software that you don’t understand. The point of the analogy was that you need to analyze and literally iterate over code to gain concrete proof of what it was actually doing to engineer a coherent software design.
You really needed a better CS professor.
If you're writing code that you don't understand without treating it like a goddamned microbe in a petri dish, you are the slop coder.
Slopilation. Wastecode. Bullshit harvesting.
Copyright liability as a Service (ClaaS)
clod dropping
vulncoding
It should insult Boris Cherny by name.
How about
Not Coding
slop + coding
slop coding
sloding
slopding (E: Could be translated into German as "something which is slop". -ding has a similar meaning as -zeug, e.g. Flugzeug, "something which flies")
sloping
Call it what it is, middle management
Random Code Generator Code Vomit The Vomit Commit
Made up shit
Chug Nugging; Unmindulating; Synth-ercising; Bloater Moting;
Chode coding
Pooping?
Code extruding. Like extruding shit out of an anus
Bile coding
I just want to say: I appreciate all these comments so much, I regret that I only have a single upvote to give each of them. You all give me hope that at least there will be fellow humans standing by my side through... wherever this goes.
Personally massaging the code
Diablo's like 🤓☝️
Slinging slop
Lazehaxxing
Peer reviewed or not peer reviewed. Doesn't matter how it was created as long as others have been walked through it.
wig coding
Not copyrightable coding
Suggest he go fuck himself
Shit.
Vibe shiting
Slode
We don't do vibe coding here, we do agentic engineering. 😎
Slopulator
Clop Slop
Also, possibly an STI? "They got the Clop Slop!"
Edit: Actually, I think just "Clop" works
Mother fucking