Ask HN: Why are modern AIs ignorant or reluctant to talk about "vibe coding"?

2•amichail•1h ago

Is it because very little of their training data has the term "vibe coding" in it?

Comments

eimrine•1h ago

What did they say?

amichail•1h ago

If you submit a prompt with "vibe coding" in it, they will reply in a way that seems to imply they have no idea what the term means and are just faking a reply based on surrounding context in the prompt.

delaminator•1h ago

"they" - which ones ?

amichail•1h ago

ChatGPT for one.

tjr•1h ago

I just asked it about vibe coding, and it happily generated numerous paragraphs and bulleted list on the subject.

uberman•1h ago

That is not my experience, at least when I tried it just now.

delaminator•1h ago

You're not giving us any evidence of this. You're just asserting it.

Claude will happily talk about vibe coding as much as you want.

One of its active working prompts is "vibing".

It wasn't a popular term until early 2025.

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383

> There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. ...

11:17 pm · 2 Feb 2025 5.2M Views

uberman•1h ago

I asked Claude to give me the pros and cons of "vibe coding" and it did so without confusion.

amichail•5m ago

See: https://chatgpt.com/share/69402508-e654-800c-8de2-7fea4c39b2...

PurpleRamen•1h ago

Vibe Coding is a fresh term, not very well-defined yet. Depending on your phrasing and the model's age, it would be easy for any LLM to trip over it.

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