Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what David Heinemeier Hansson said
vibe coding Building software by describing what you want and accepting what comes back, without reading much of it.
And vibe coding, if we define it here, is you tell an agent to build software for you. You do not look at the implementation. That, to me, is what separates vibe coding from programming or, let's say, agent-accelerated development.
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Hansson draws the line at whether you look at the implementation, and says what falls the wrong side of it is not programming. Steinberger says the term is a slur and that what he does is agentic engineering. They may well be describing two different practices, and the fact that one word covers both is the problem each is complaining about.
Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.