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Comment by maho

7 days ago

At $enterprise, we were just looking for a proper term that sets "responsible vibing" apart from "YOLO vibe coding". We landed on "agent assisted coding".

It's a bit more technical. And it has a three-letter acronym. Gotta have a three letter acronym.

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cutemonster  7 days ago

I like "YOLO vibe coding" or maybe "YOLO vibing" for short, if the context is clear :-)

Hmm another idea is "extreme vibe coding" as opposed to "extreme programming",

but those who did "extreme vibe coding" wouldn't know what it meant

simonw  7 days ago

AAC / Agent Assisted Coding is a good term.

  • frumiousirc  7 days ago

    > AAC / Agent Assisted Coding is a good term.

    Yes, please don't push "vibe engineering" to mean how you defined it in your blog post. To me, it means exactly the opposite.

    I see "vibe" as pejorative. Adding "engineering" does not elevate it from "vibe coding", as I think is your intention in the post, it just shifts "vibe" term to a different domain.

    To me, "vibe engineering" means using LLM to develop "design" with no care as to its validity just like "vibe coding" means for "code".

    "Agentic xyz" or "Agent assisted xyz" is more fitting.

    FWIW, I do not see "vibe" as always pejorative, rather it depends on goals. When quick results and not long term quality matter, "vibing" is a legit tactic.

    Anyways, just my interpretations. Please, keep up the good work. Remember, the two hardest things in software are naming, cache invalidation and off-by-one errors. It's good you continue to tackle the zeroth one.

snickell  7 days ago

I really like "agent assisted coding". I think the word "vibe" is gonna always swing in a yolo direction, so having different words is helpful for differentiating fundamentally different applications of the same agentic coding tools.