Sorta kinda. It depends on where you put that line. I think because online drama is fun when we got to the “vibe coding” name we moved to the assumption that all AI assistance is vibe coding, but in practice there’s the percentage of what you do that you know how to do, the percentage you vibe code because you can’t figure it out yourself off the top of your head and the percentage you just can’t do without researching because the LLM can’t do it effectively or the stuff it can do is too crappy to use as part of something else.

I think if the assumption is you should just “git gud” and not take advantage of that grey zone where you can sooort of figure it out by asking an AI instead of going down a Google rabbit hole then the performative AI hate is setting itself up for defeat, because there’s a whole bunch of skill ranges where that is actually helpful for some stuff.

If you want to deny that there’s a difference between that and just making code soup by asking a language model to build you entire pieces of software… well, then you’re going to be obviously wrong and a bunch of AI bros are going to point at the obvious way you’re wrong and use that to pretend you’re wrong about the whole thing.

This is basic online disinformation playbook stuff and I may suck at coding, but I know a thing or two about that. People with progressive ideas should get good at beating those one of these days, because that’s a bad outcome.