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Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks)

Simon Willison · 7 min read

A post on simonwillison.net is cited by 46 distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 12 October 2026).

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46blogs citing

Citing blogs and links by period
Period Blogs Links
All time4650
Last 90 days55
Last 30 days33
Last 7 days00
Figures for this page
First cited20 Mar 2025
Latest citation2 Oct 2026
Words blogs link it with5
Linked with its own title7 of 46 blogs
External links5
Length1,449
New citing blogs a weeksince Mar 2025
New citing blogs a week, since Mar 2025: 83 weeks, peak 4 a week, latest week 0

0 this week (still settling) · peak 4

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Each blog counts once, in the week of its first citation. 1 blog has no dated post that cites this page: counted in the tally, not here. A blog added to the index recently can bring old first citations in at once.

Who cited it

Cited by 46 blogs across 2 subjects: technology 35, life 1, unclassified 10.

Words blogs link it with

The words blogs link this page with, by how many different blogs use them.

  • not all ai-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks)7 blogs
  • vibe coding6 blogs
  • simon willison4 blogs
  • added the other half1 blog
  • ai-assisted programming1 blog

Cited by 46 blogs in 50 posts

One row per blog, the most recently citing first. Each shows the blog's newest citing post; open a row for the others.

Blog
Newest citing post
Date
zanlib1 post
"Do You Still Read the Code?"

linked as “Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks)”

Read at zanlib.dev (opens in a new tab)
14 Sept 2026
Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled

linked as “draw a line in the sand between agentic engineering and vibecoding”

Read at dustycloud.org (opens in a new tab)
17 Jul 2026
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-05-03

linked as “Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks)”

Read at bionicteaching.com (opens in a new tab)
10 May 2026
Vibe Coding: Democratizing Software or the End of Quality?

linked as “Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks)”

Read at tobiasreithmeier.de (opens in a new tab)
28 Apr 2026
Book Review: Vibe Coding by Gene Kim and Steve Yegge

linked as “building software with an AI agent without reviewing the code it writes”

Read at mikehadlow.com (opens in a new tab)
23 Feb 2026
AI Didn't Design This BNG. Experience Did.

linked as “Simon Willison: Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding”

Read at markgascoyne.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
14 Feb 2026
AI, Software Development, Security, Tips, and the Future (Part 2)

linked as “Andrej Karpathy proposed the term “vibe coding” for the first case (when you’re using AI without hum…”

Read at openssf.org (opens in a new tab)
5 Jan 2026
loumf1 post
26 Dec 2025
Snyk3 posts
27 Nov 2025
2 other posts
Personalization in Vibe Coding

linked as “Kevin Roose (New York Times) building "LunchBox Buddy"”

Read at snyk.io (opens in a new tab)
17 Nov 2025
29 Oct 2025

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