It's enough - vibecoding tag crossed from useless to harmful
The vibecoding tag has been getting more and more useless for a while now. It lost the original meaning as the culture of software engineering with LLMs matured a bit. It got silly when posts talking about LLMs in general got tagged. It got useless when posts even mentioning some project created with LLMs in passing got tagged. Now it actually got harmful to the community when tagging posts turns…
The vibecoding tag has become increasingly useless over time. As the culture of software engineering evolved with the advent of large language models (LLMs), the original meaning of the tag faded away. Posts discussing LLMs in general began to be tagged, and even mentions of projects created with LLMs in passing started receiving the tag.
Recently, the tag has become harmful to the community, causing valuable members to leave due to annoyance. The author of the article expresses their disappointment, stating that the tag no longer provides any useful information and actively discourages the creation of original technical content. They urge for the tag to be split or removed entirely, as it is better to have no tag at all than to have the current one.
The author acknowledges the importance of filtering out LLM-generated or LLM-centric posts, but argues that the current situation harms the entire community.
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