Comment by saberience

6 days ago

Question, why is it seemingly so super important for you to coin a term for this?

Especially a term which comes across as so demeaning and devaluing to engineers (like me and yourself!)

I absolutely do not want my non-engineer friends and colleagues think I am "vibe engineering", it sounds trivial and dumbs down the discipline.

I personally believe being an engineer of some kind requires work, learning, patience, discipline, and we should be proud of being engineers. There's no way in hell I would go around and saying I'm a "vibe engineer" now. It would be like going around and saying I'm a vibe architect! Who would want to live in a skyscraper designed by a "vibe architect" ??

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saberience

simonw 6 days ago

I don't think you should call yourself a "vibe engineer" because you use AI tooling, just like I don't think you should call yourself a "continuous integration engineer" if part of your job role occasionally involves configuring GitHub Actions.

But the act of working on GitHub Actions could be referred to as "continuous integration engineering", just like the act of figuring out how best to build software engineering processes around LLM tools could be called "vibe engineering".