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Claude Code's creator is sick of the phrase 'vibe coding.' Suggest your alternative here.
(www.businessinsider.com)
Slop coding?
this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
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Or just "slopping" maybe? "Stop slopping up code."
sloppy/paste
I recall someone at some point calling it cuckoding, that gave me a chuckle.
Hey, if the coding gets out of place, you don't expect the IDE or the code it self to correct it. You gotta get in there and properly guide it in. Gotta give a helping hand to your AI bull.
Shit puking
Plaguerising. Like plagiarism but with added disease connotations.
Microsoft: Stop saying "Ai slop".
We: OK Microslop.
Claude Code's creator: Stop saying "vibe coding".
We (hopefully): OK Vibethropic.
Edit: Typo corrected, misspelled Vibethropic as Vibetropic.
Vibethropic
Anslopic
Anslopic is chef's kiss
Nogramming?
Noobgramming
How about Slaupe Code?
Careless Coding
Sloperating
Considering the addictive potential, I would call it slot machine coding, Las Vegas coding or Casino coding
Casino coding is great!
This is my new preferred term!
If it's pissing him off, why would I want an alternative ?
Slop scripting
Sloppin around
"Sloptimising"?
I'd daresay the creator is still sloptimistic.
Tupperware engineering.
You put all the shit in a Tupperware and most likely will already have spoiled the next day; except it’s in a box now so you can’t see it or smell how bad it has gotten.
Not that at no point did the Tupperware go in the fridge.
Hallucicoding.
software devolvement
Accelerated Software Decomposition
I've always called it "Fart Coding"
Because it's as easy as farting and usually pretty much stinks like a fart.
Entropy Injection
He can use whatever word he wants, why should anyone care about his preferences?
Sloppy seconds
Almost coding. So close ! I think...
Liabiliting
Creative guessing
Stochastic parrot coding
Sharded barf.
A phrase from an ancient meme, that is simultaneously unconnected and also weirdly apt. However you interpret those words.
The meme itself in video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb58GaJNpsA
Autoclanking
Shitting your whole ass
Meanwhile Mistral named theirs 'vibe'
prototyping
You are expected to throw away the prototype, but they want to use it in production. It is foolish.
How about Probabalistic Geneating
Really, there's too much variance anyway, and it depends on what you want to address. They ask their chatbot and are not satisfied, and now ask for suggestions. Without defining what they want to find a term for specifically and what is important to them. Is that marketing or collaboration?
"Business Insider", with a piece about terminology, one person's interpretation, and asking for suggestions.
Cherny is an evangelist for AI-driven coding, recently saying for him, coding is "solved."
Either an expertise disqualification, or a question of what they understand "coding" to be. Surely they elaborated in the surrounding context of that statement? /s
Maybe they prefer vibe engineering