While software craftsmen mourned the death of their craft, reality moved on. In February 2025, Andrej Karpathy ingeniously coined the term "vibe coding" (which hit Merriam-Webster as a slang term shortly after) to describe the shift from hand-writing code to steering the agent. But the honeymoon didn't last. Amateurs quickly ruined the vibe when their weekend projects got routinely annihilated upon hitting production, finally giving vibe-coding a bad rep.
Admitting to agent authorship feels honest, but also sounds like a confession and does nothing to build a professional identity: "I wrote this with the help of [Agent]." or "I let [Agent] write this."
Brand-derived verbs feel clumsy:
* I clankered
* I clauded / I claudified
* I codexed
My best shots so far:
* I tokencrafted"
* I vibecrafted"
So, what verb do you use to describe your daily grind or agent management? (At least until we can go back to "writing software" in a few years).
babakkarimib•41m ago