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Vibe coding

Building software by describing what you want to an AI and accepting what it writes, with little reading or understanding of the code yourself.

You'll hear it as

I vibe coded a booking tool over the weekend.

Why it matters to you.

It's brilliant for prototypes and for digital homesteading. It's risky for anything other people rely on, because nobody understands the code well enough to secure it, fix it or change it. That's tech debt from day one.

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