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Vibe Coding2026-08-06 · source-backed
Willison coined it August 3 for pasting an LLM's output onward into a PR, a ticket, a Slack thread without reading, validating or rephrasing it. His argument: the human's value in an agent workflow is precisely the verification step, so skipping it makes you a lossy transport layer rather than a reviewer. It's landing because it gives teams vocabulary for a review-quality problem that was previously hard to raise without sounding like an objection to AI tooling generally.
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