The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding

Ugh.<p>I&#x27;m sick of vibe coding being called the wave of the future. There are people out there working on genuinely hard problems using real knowledge and skill. The idea that they&#x27;re going to be replaced by people telling a chatbot to &quot;do a thing&quot; strikes me as ridiculous. All the &quot;amazing&quot; vibe coding demos I&#x27;ve seen are things like &quot;holy crap it made a todo list&quot; or &quot;here&#x27;s a blocky flight sim where the plane is sideways.&quot;<p>Look if you&#x27;re having fun telling windsurf to replace your blog I&#x27;m not trying to rain on your parade, but I&#x27;m sick of hearing that it&#x27;s the future. It devalues what actual programmers do with their actual knowledge. Vibe coders are the script kiddies to the actual hackers out there.

I spent a good 5 minutes trying to figure out if this was _actually_ THE Rick Ruben, and then another 5 wondering why the f he was writing about vibe coding.<p>For those who don&#x27;t know, Rick Ruben is one of the most influential record producers of all time. His specialty is prompting people to help them make their art. So I suppose it follows that he&#x27;s taken an interest in doodling with vibe coding.<p>I find that this lives right on the lines of inside joke and satire and insightful and serious. I can&#x27;t stop chuckling to myself as I read them.

It&#x27;s an interesting observation that &quot;vibe coders&quot; — accusing everyone from artists to programmers of elitism because they suggest you pick up a pencil or a book — seem to make up entire pseudo-religions out of prompt-whispering, complete with unique rituals, theological treatises, and an isolated community warning you of the evil of worldly folk.

&quot;When the way of code is abandoned, doctrines of ‘best practices’ and ‘standards’ appear. When intuition is dismissed, cleverness and pretense follow. When harmony is unnoticed, rules and processes multiply. When software fails, zealous testers arise.&quot;

This is great, and the ability to &quot;remix&quot; the art with Claude is really neat. I sat down with my son (kindergarten age) and we took turns giving it instructions to see how we could change it. He just wanted to keep going and going, until it was past his bedtime.<p>All you haters out there, just... play around with it. It&#x27;s fun. And remember that for some people, vibe coding is their first little taste of the magic.

Sorry Rick, I&#x27;m not bending over to pick your 2 cents up off the dusty floor of the Internet. Now if Flood wants to vibe, I might stoop.

Have the courage to put your work forward under its own name dont try to coat-tail on other great works. This applies to all the &quot;x is all you need &#x2F; y considered harmful&quot; etc too but this one is much more sacrilegious Im actually annoyed

Barf

And now it’s flagged. This is why we can’t have anything fun. Hacker News doesn’t do humor. I could go on for a while about how brilliant the satire and self deprecating humor on Anthropic’s part is in this piece. But all people seem to see is “ewww gross vibe coding“

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