AI/Coding/History/Phase/4 - Basic Autonomous Coding

• Ushered in by Claude/Code, in phase four, a developer could give an LLM an instruction, and an Agentic System would iterate on it for some time, sometimes 3-5 minutes, other times 5-10 minutes.
• AI/Coding/Vibe/25/02/Karpathy Coins Term

  • On 2025-10-02 Thu, Person/Andrej Karpathy coined the term "Vibe Coding" in a tweet.

    • There’s a new kind of coding I call “vibe coding”, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It’s possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard.
      

    • I ask for the dumbest things like “decrease the padding on the sidebar by half” because I’m too lazy to find it. I “Accept All” always, I don’t read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I’d have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can’t fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away.
      

    • It’s not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I’m building a project or webapp, but it’s not really coding—I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.
      

• AI/Coding/Vibe/25/03/Willison Clarifies as Not Reviewing Code

  • On 2025-03-19 Wed, Person/Simon Willison/Blog/25/03/Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding, clarified

    • When I talk about vibe coding I mean building software with an LLM without reviewing the code it writes
      

• Sub-Phases
  • AI/Coding/History/Phase/4 - Basic Autonomous Coding/Web-based Vibe Coding

    • Pioneered by tools like BoltAI, LoveableAI, ReplitAI and Devin, a new web-based, chat-driven form factor for coding emerged which aimed to bring Vibe Coding to people who had no experience with programming. Some Software Engineers also used these tools to iterate faster AI/Coding/AFK.
  • AI/Coding/History/Phase/4 - Basic Autonomous Coding/CLI-based

    • For many, Claude/Code exemplified a new paradigm for coding, working as a CLI Tool which could even be parallelizable with