{"id":6082,"date":"2025-10-20T14:55:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/inventor-vibe-coding-doesnt-work\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:55:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:55:54","slug":"inventor-vibe-coding-doesnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/inventor-vibe-coding-doesnt-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Inventor of Vibe Coding Admits He Hand-Coded His New Project"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Earlier this year, former OpenAI exec Andrej Karpathy coined a new term \u2014 \u201cvibe coding\u201d \u2014 for using artificial intelligence to rapidly develop software using natural language prompts.<\/p>\n

But the approach comes with some glaring shortcomings that have gradually come to light, from major cybersecurity problems leading to mass leaking of sensitive personal information<\/a> to rampant hallucinations that turn vibe-coded projects into a buggy mess<\/a> that has to be painstakingly fixed by human programmers.<\/p>\n

Even Karpathy himself has seemingly fallen out of love with his own creation. His latest project, dubbed Nanochat, is a \u201cminimal, from scratch\u201d interface that strips down a ChatGPT-like experience to its very basics.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou boot up a cloud [graphics processing unit] box, run a single script and in as little as four hours later you can talk to your own [large language model] in a ChatGPT-like web UI,\u201d he boasted in a recent tweet<\/a>. <\/p>\n

But as it turns out, the project wasn\u2019t the result of AI vibe coding \u2014 it was Karpathy himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s basically entirely hand-written,\u201d Karpathy wrote in a followup<\/a>. \u201cI tried to use C<\/strong>laude\/C<\/strong>odex agents a few times but they just didn\u2019t work well enough at all and net unhelpful, possibly the repo is too far off the data distribution.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, even the godfather of vibe coding doesn\u2019t trust the tech enough to use it on his own project.<\/p>\n

To be fair, even Karpathy himself never intended for \u201cvibe coding\u201d to replace human developers in the long run.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes the LLMs can\u2019t fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away,\u201d he wrote in the February tweet<\/a> in which he first coined the term. \u201cIt\u2019s not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing.\u201d<\/p>\n

But overrelying on the technique can have disastrous consequences as companies continue to cut costs in favor of investing in AI<\/a> \u2014 regardless of Karpathy\u2019s original intentions.<\/p>\n

As 404 Media<\/em> reported<\/a> last month, a growing number of coders are being tasked with fixing AI-hallucinated code. At best, projects never reach a satisfying level of polish. At worst, the shoddily-put-together lines of code can wipe out entire databases<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Researchers have also found that AI-assisted coding can actually slow down human developers<\/a>, instead of boosting their productivity.<\/p>\n

In a recent report<\/a>, management consultants Bain & Company found that despite being \u201cone of the first areas to deploy generative AI,\u201d the \u201csavings have been unremarkable\u201d in programming.<\/p>\n

\u201cGenerative AI arrived on the scene with sky-high expectations, and many companies rushed into pilot projects,\u201d the consultants wrote. \u201cYet the results haven\u2019t lived up to the hype.\u201d<\/p>\n

Content delivery platform Fastly similarly found<\/a> that at least 95 percent of 800 developers it surveyed had to spend extra time fixing AI-generated code<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Experts have also warned that the trend could result in human coders never learning the ropes properly<\/a>. Leaning on AI coding too much may be \u201ca bit of an impending disaster\u201d as MIT computer scientist Daniel Jackson\u00a0told\u00a0Wired<\/em><\/a>\u00a0earlier this year. <\/p>\n

\u201cNot only will we have masses of broken code, full of security vulnerabilities, but we\u2019ll have a new generation of programmers incapable of dealing with those vulnerabilities,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

More on vibe coding:<\/strong> Amateurs Using AI to \u201cVibe Code\u201d Are Now Begging Real Programmers to Fix Their Botched Software<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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