Slopfest #99 · 2025 · Vienna
Vibe Coded
An engineer coined 'vibe coding', where you forget the code even exists. We have been forgetting since 1927.
Museum status: On permanent loan to a museum that has not been informed.
- Venue
- Stadtbahnbögen, under the U6 on the Gürtel
- Attendance
- 91,000
- Fun fact
- 1 prompt, 480,000 lines of code, 0 read
What happened
The website, ticketing, lighting and bar menu were all generated from a single prompt, 'make it good', and nobody on the committee read a line of the result. It mostly worked. The bar served only Almdudler, for reasons nobody can find, and the Blechkopf, now with an API, raffled itself off and has not yet come back.
“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
Elsewhere in 2025
Andrej Karpathy coins 'vibe coding', describing programming by prompting an AI and accepting its output without reading the code.
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