A Slangorithm collection · 4 words

Vibe Coding Culture.

Making things, overthinking prompts, and occasionally trusting the vibes a little too much.

A weekend project becomes a personality. One more prompt becomes twenty. This collection follows the jokes, rituals and small confessions around making things with AI. Start with vibe coding, then wander into the habits that come with handing part of the work to a chat window.

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Vibe Coding

Building software by describing what you want to an AI and steering the results through conversation, often without closely reading the generated code.

Rising
Promptmaxxing

Obsessively tuning prompts to squeeze a better result out of an AI, sometimes long after the extra effort stops being useful.

Emerging
Context Rot

The feeling that a long AI chat has lost the plot: old instructions, forgotten details and a conversation that keeps going in circles.

Emerging
Vibe Researching

Exploring a subject through AI-generated explanations and summaries while letting plausibility substitute for checking the underlying evidence.

Emerging