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Can we stop tagging every thing as vibecoding?

Lobsters [Unofficial] June 8, 2026
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Any article that even slightly mentions that AI exists is tagged as vibecoding, even when they have nothing to do with it. It:s getting out of hand.

EXAMPLE 1:

https://lobste.rs/s/ly0vif/my_students

Tagged as vibecoding, article contains a single passing reference

where people are racing to create intelligent machines, but only in order to make them slaves

EXAMPLE 2 (my own article; biased)

https://lobste.rs/s/vufbvv/user_doesn_t_care_you_should

I quoted a SINGLE example of someone putting an agentic spin on an old trope:

"Users don’t care whether the code was written by AI or by hand, or which framework you used. They care that the product works."

EXAMPLE 3

https://lobste.rs/s/gefcox/jolt_clojure_interpreter_on_janet

This is a code repo. There is no AGENTS.md, or CLAUDE.md, or any mention of AI in the readme...

EXAMPLE 4:

this post, which someone will inevitably tag as "vibecoding"

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