Ask HN: How do you define Vibe Coding?
1 johncole 1 7/7/2025, 11:36:06 AM
It’s referenced everywhere. But no one seems to have a good definition. Is it any time you use an llm? Or when you use an llm to write an entire project? Or somewhere in between?
Vibe is the undefined.
Vibe the verb:
>to like someone or something and feel comfortable and happy with them:
>to enjoy playing, listening to, or dancing to music in a relaxed way:
>to have or create a particular feeling:
When you're vibe coding. You're coding with a happy, relaxed, good feelings.
So by definition you're not doing the unhappy, annoying, bad part of programming. You are flying by the seat of your pants. No structure, no testing, no planning. Minimal documentation? Whatever the AI puts in there i guess.