Stop Vibe Coding. Start Cyborg Coding

(chaserabenn.medium.com)

24 points | by chaserabenn 6 hours ago

12 comments

  • yoz-y 5 hours ago
    How about cyborg prompting your hero image? That screen is facing the wrong way, left and right hand are owned by different people… I guess it’s a good guard to tell people to not bother reading something that the author didn’t bother writing.
    • World_Peace 5 hours ago
      Am I going insane or does it feel like every other post is written by o3? This is exhausting.
      • croisillon 4 hours ago
        cut him some slack, the author has been hard at work editing out all the emojis
        • terrib1e 4 hours ago
          by o3 and variations of the same topic
        • GiorgioG 4 hours ago
          From the HN guidelines:

          "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity."

          • chaserabenn 2 hours ago
            100% My bad on the self promo. first time posting. feel free to flag away. Had just read yet another article on the wonders of vibe coding, got annoyed, wrote this.
            • gnabgib 2 hours ago
              You're literally posting your stuff part of the time (one post!) don't feel bad about it, well within the guideline spirit.
              • GiorgioG 1 hour ago
                Respectfully: the OP has a 2 year old account and a karma of 12. I disagree with your assessment that his post is well within the guideline spirit.
          • wdib 5 hours ago
            Did the author cyborg write this blog post?
            • syndrowm 2 hours ago
              Haven’t pilots already been vibe landing planes for quite a while?
              • randall 4 hours ago
                Do we think that cyborg coding is the right word? I've been struggling how to explain when i have 4 claude code instances going working on stuff from specs / fixing bugs / updating docs / etc.
                • mathgeek 4 hours ago
                  I believe we already have the correct word (agent).
                  • OutOfHere 4 hours ago
                    Agentic coding.
                    • randall 4 hours ago
                      To me this implies that it's more agent than person... like when you use claude in github actions vs using it in your ide.
                      • OutOfHere 3 hours ago
                        Agentic coding works via the IDE, GitHub Issues, and command-line tools like OpenAI Codex and Claude CLI. Agentic coding is AI-based feedback-driven multi-step coding. In general, an agent implies that the agent is working for someone, which in this case is a person.
                  • OutOfHere 4 hours ago
                    Note that Claude overuses tokens. I guess they get paid by the token. It is cliched in this way, sort of like if a programmer were to get paid by the line. Other LLMs can produce clean results with far fewer tokens than Claude.
                  • GiorgioG 4 hours ago
                    Flag this into oblivion folks.
                    • zeofig 4 hours ago
                      I'm gonna continue regular coding, hehe.
                      • desireco42 5 hours ago
                        I am 100% with you on this (as this is how I do things). Now, tbh, having CI/CD setup with code formatter, linter, code gen was already like this. AI just elevates this further.

                        So yeah, 100% in agreement.