the loop

[ thuh loop ]noun

The heart of vibe coding: ask, look at what came back, correct it, ask again, until it matches what you meant.

Explanation

The whole craft lives here. Everybody shows you the first go. Almost nobody publishes the fourth, which is where you find out whether you understood the problem.

Related words

• refinement pass — One round of handing the AI its own work back, along with what is wrong with it.
• Ralph loop — Running an AI at the same job over and over until the answer stops changing.
• vibe coding — Building software by describing what you want to an AI and taking what it gives you, without reading much of it line by line.