vibe coader

[ vahyb KOH-der ]noun

Somebody who builds working software mostly by telling AI what to do, and takes full responsibility for the result anyway.

Explanation

The extra letter is doing real work. A coder writes the code; a coader conducts it. The craft is not typing, it is framing the job, setting the limits, and checking. You judge one by how little they have to throw away, not by how much they produce.

Related words

• 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.
• vibe engineering — A proposed name for doing all of this properly: the same tools, but somebody actually reads the code.

Prompts that deal with it

• Explain It Like I Own It — For the builder who did not write the code