Simon Willison’s Weblog

I was grumbling to myself about how if we're going to give in, ditch the proper definition and use "vibe coding" to refer to all forms of AI-assisted programming, where do we draw the line?

Is it "vibe coding" if my IDE suggests the completion of a single line of code? How about if I copy and paste in a three line "escape HTML characters" function from ChatGPT? What if I copy and paste some code from StackOverflow that it turns out was AI-generated by someone else? How much AI-assistance does it take to switch from programming to "vibe coding"?

Then I realized that the answer was staring me in the face. There is no clear line. It's all in the vibes.