Collection · 4 terms

Vibe Coding Culture.

Making things with AI, fussing over prompts and figuring out what you actually built.

You ask for a small app. A few prompts later, it works, although you are not quite sure why. These terms cover that experience and some nearby habits: rewriting a prompt one more time, losing the thread of a long chat, or trusting an answer before checking it.

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Vibe Coding

Making software by asking an AI for changes and trying the results, often without reading much of the code it writes.

Rising
Promptmaxxing

Endlessly tweaking an AI prompt in pursuit of the perfect answer, sometimes spending more effort on the prompt than the task.

Emerging
Context Rot

When a long AI chat starts losing the thread, mixing up instructions or circling back to things you already settled.

Emerging
Vibe Researching

Following AI summaries from one answer to the next without checking whether the sources support what they say.

Emerging