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248 Andrew Ng Says Vibe Coding is a Bad Name For a Very Real and Exhausting Job

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msmash @ Slashdot · 06/05/2025 12:05 EDT

Andrew Ng Says Vibe Coding is a Bad Name For a Very Real and Exhausting Job

An anonymous reader shares a report: Vibe coding might sound chill, but Andrew Ng thinks the name is unfortunate. The Stanford professor and former Google Brain scientist said the term misleads people into imagining engineers just "go with the vibes" when using AI tools to write code. "It's unfortunate that that's called vibe coding," Ng said at a firechat chat in May at conference LangChain Interrupt. "It's misleading a lot of people into thinking, just go with the vibes, you know -- accept this, reject th

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