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[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 hours ago

I read all the way to "is beginning to annoy him." and immediately stopped giving a fuck.

[–] arcine@jlai.lu 10 points 4 hours ago

Code Vomit.

[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 hours ago

Clanker code.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 hours ago
[–] Kaligalis@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Nothing wrong with "vibe coding", "prompting", "generating" or the other terms associated with using AI to generate something.

If you do proper quality assurance, and assume ownership and accountability it is your piece of work. If not, it's AI slop.

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 hours ago

Spanking the code monkey.

[–] nightlily@leminal.space 10 points 5 hours ago

Lobotomy as a Service.

[–] DeuS@feddit.nl 18 points 7 hours ago

How about VaaS (Vulnerability as a Service)

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago
[–] XPost3000@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 hours ago

Slopware Engineering

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 15 points 8 hours ago

What do you prefer? Code theft? Compiled slop? Inefficient shambling?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 hours ago

Jerking off.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

NOT - coding.

[–] tristynalxander@mander.xyz 3 points 7 hours ago

Subscription bugging.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 6 points 9 hours ago

My self-hosted LLM can suggest better names for anything!

Subscription fee is only $1m a minute, most answers are returned in about 3 hours, since I can't afford more RAM.

[–] grumpo_potamus@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Personally massaging the code

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 20 points 17 hours ago

"Call it what you like, you're still going to need us" Code.

It's just really high level BASIC with much looser syntax. It doesn't mean my boss could use it, any more than they could use the "no code" rubbish, BASIC, C, Fortran or Assembly that came before it.

If your job was taking really detailed technical specifications and turning it into something a computer can read, then you might be in trouble. But my job was always deciphering the nonsense amalgamations of customers, sales people, and managers, figuring out what the actual requirement is, determine the simplest thing that could handle that, and write it in such a way that the inevitable changes that they request won't be too painful to add.

[–] sirdorius@programming.dev 42 points 20 hours ago
[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 27 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 11 hours ago

I like it, it adds insult without sacrificing meaning.

[–] CatAssTrophy@safest.space 21 points 18 hours ago

Who gives a flying fuck what terms one asshole is sick of? Fuck him, fuck vibe coding and trying to enforce language that appeals to what "elite" dipshits like.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 20 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)
  • Subscription coding.
  • It looks like you're writing an app. Can I help you with that?
  • CrappyCodey
  • Clueless coding
  • Klutz code
  • Mañana coding
  • Brain-free coding
  • Developerless development
  • Self-driving systems
  • Humanity-free development
  • If claude can do this it can replace management next
  • Claude codepirated
  • Good luck copywriting this intellectual property theft
  • AI pwned
  • I never really understood the codebase in the first place
  • Blagger's code
  • I'm so much more valuable to my employer now that I've outsourced all that tedious thinking, understanding and creating I used to do.
[–] Gremour@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago

Clueless coding is the perfect term.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 16 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)
  • Slopcoding
  • Codeslopping
  • Spaghetticoding
  • "Good luck trying to figure this out in 2 years" Coding
[–] vane@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago

codeshittication

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 19 points 20 hours ago
  • Slopcoding
  • Poopslopping
  • Anti-environment laziness
[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 10 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Script Kiddie is the derogatory term for hackers that download tools and have no idea what they are doing.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 13 points 18 hours ago

Prompt kiddies

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

At least kiddies can eventually learn, the biggest fans of these things are worse, they are MBAies

[–] zoloftt@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

Clippy coding! Newer coders won't get the reference, older coders can hold it with the same scorn.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago

I like to pronounce it very German in my environment, which becomes Klaut Kot. Steals Feces. It's quite fitting tbh.

[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

isn't vibe coding a term that comes from the ai bros themselves first? We would've used slop coding lol

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[–] grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 186 points 1 day ago (8 children)
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[–] AresUII@lemmy.world 218 points 1 day ago (5 children)
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[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 161 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] captcha@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 points 17 hours ago

I was here to offer this. Maybe even vibe slopping

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[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 98 points 1 day ago

"Aggressively de-skilling while simultaneously shitting out tech debt"

Doesn't roll off the tongue as well, though.

"Slopping"

[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 73 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

Automated bullshiting?

[–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 70 points 1 day ago (3 children)
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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 4 points 20 hours ago

Slopilation. Wastecode. Bullshit harvesting.

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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