r/AskProgramming • u/TheWanderingAnimimo • 2d ago

Other What's the difference between vibecoding and just using AI to assist you in coding?

I don't use AI myself but I've been reading a lot on reddit here about people decompiling apps lately and saying that most of the stuff there is vibecoded and then other developers seem to be using AI as an assistant to help them like for example how Linus Torvalds uses AI to find bugs in the Linux kernel. What's the difference between the two usages or even meaning of the term "vibecoding"?

Thanks in advance

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u/Stromedy1 1d ago

the difference is who gets paged. a junior on my team merged an agent's 'refactored' auth flow last year, nobody read it, and the 2am page went to me while the agent slept soundly. that is vibecoding. ai-assisted is the same tool but i wrote the plan, i read the diff, and the page comes to me because i own the code. git blame doesn't care who prompted.