Vibecoding

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/year-in-review-2025/ In this episode @karpathy blessed us all with another blogpost. While his wording is much more careful and even nuanced, there is still a lot of bullshit in it. It way less outrageous bullshit as in the Friedman poocast and around that time, but still. Here are some excerpts: With vibe coding, programming is not strictly reserved for highly trained professionals, it is something anyone can do. … But not only does vibe coding empower regular people to approach programming, it empowers trained professionals to write a lot more (vibe coded) software that would otherwise never be written. ...

Reading less social media bullshit and using ones own well-trained mind sometimes helps to clarify complex and noisy topics. Here is why, in principle, any LLM coding (I cannot call this crap “programming” because there is no uderstanding involved) will always yield sub-par bullshit. LLMs operate on tokens, which are abstract numbers, if you will. Parts of words of a human language are being associated with a distinct token, and then a probabilistic graph-like structure is created out of these tokens, using a fundamental back-propagation algorithm. ...