https://ricardozanini.github.io/Recent content on Ricardo ZaniniHugo -- 0.148.2en-usTue, 12 Aug 2025 19:23:08 -0400https://ricardozanini.github.io/2025/08/08/please-stop-vibe-coding/Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://ricardozanini.github.io/2025/08/08/please-stop-vibe-coding/<p>The other day, this meme appeared on my timeline.</p> <blockquote> <p>This PR looks suspicious&hellip; <img alt="Meme: &ldquo;This PR looks suspicious…&rdquo;" loading="lazy" src="https://ricardozanini.github.io/2025/08/08/please-stop-vibe-coding/meme-vibe-coding.jpeg"></p></blockquote> <p><em>Shout-out to my friend <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/edoardovacchi_pro-tip-spoof-your-user-agent-to-an-ai-crawler-activity-7356006270731988993-sA2s?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAHtz1EBYxpmoS7uy_akSEiqgWEq7M1OxNU">Edoardo Vacchi</a></em></p> <p>I kept hearing about <em>vibe coding</em> here and there until someone sent me an article about it. The article went deep into &ldquo;prompt engineering&rdquo; and how LLMs will eventually replace us all.</p> <p>Last month, a (non-tech) friend bragged about building a Discord bot with zero code. A few days later, he came back saying he’d fallen into an endless rabbit hole.</p>