The Famous Garfish's Tank

Vibe coding

Vibe coding has become the expression du jour for letting large language models (LLMs) write code for you. It lives on a spectrum between the agentic, fully integrated IDE that runs commands, reads files and writes new ones at the merest suggestion you want it to do something and glorified autocomplete.

Please, I had a long day, stop calling it that

I know, as a self-identified grump and hater, the term ‘vibe coding’ makes me die a little inside every time I read it or hear it used unironically. But saying it is fun. It’s one of those terms that the youths, the rappers (same thing) or the nerds would allegedly use as slang, but really, it’s mostly your streamer’s favourite streamer and other millennials using it compulsively (‘ironically’). Like the ancient ‘YOLO’, ‘pwned’, ‘gank’, ‘1337’ and ‘swag’, or the more recent ‘...

I’m working on a review of this vibe-coded mess and how it compares to other pages on Neocities in my head.

I am making this website for myself to learn about web design and development. I use various AI tools to write HTML and CSS, because I love seeing quick results and learn well by looking at and modifying code. I do not use AI to write content on this page unless specified otherwise. I do not use AI to generate images or other media for this page. I will experiment with generated ASCII-art, because I feel that is ethical-ish.

When I first wrote this disclaimer, it got me to reflect more deeply on where I draw the line and why. I am not sure I have a definitive conclusion.

I would describe myself as a skeptic of AI and a hater of its evangelists and most implemenations/’products’. I do not like the way that a lot of it tastes of the same get-rich-quick, break-things-move-fast, quasi-religious scam soup that comprises most of the modern technological scene.

I am not an artist and have not yet found AI generated art that I enjoy. N...