Digital ExistentialismDiagnosis
Vibe Coding
vyb KOH-dingnoun
What it means
The practice of shipping software you cannot read, produced by a machine you cannot question, to users you cannot support.
What it actually means
Nobody here knows why it works.
How it is used in a sentence
"I vibe-coded the whole backend over the weekend."
Filed under
Digital Existentialism — Ideas that were briefly worth billions, explained by people who are briefly employed.
Diagnosis — The phrase already names a real problem. We define it properly.
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Prompt Engineer
Digital Existentialismprompt en-juh-NEERnounBafflegab
A job title for people who ask questions clearly, a skill previously expected of everyone.
Real meaningSomeone who types carefully.
Hallucination
Digital Existentialismhuh-loo-sih-NAY-shunnounEuphemism
A confident falsehood produced by a machine, a word chosen because error would imply someone was responsible.
Real meaningIt made it up.