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Someone finally said it. While everyone's out here calling themselves "coders" and doing "coding bootcamps," there's this one person who had to remind us that the proper term is "programming." Because apparently "coding" has become the TikTok-ified version of what we do—like calling yourself a "content creator" instead of "unemployed with a Ring light."
The suggestions for "not-vibe-coding" are pure gold though. "Boomer coding" hits different when you realize half of us still write code like it's 1995. "Chewgy coding" for that millennial energy of over-engineering everything. "Trad coding" for when you refuse to use frameworks and insist on writing everything from scratch. And "Coding with capital C" is just chef's kiss—because if you're gonna gatekeep, might as well go full grammatical pedant.
But the reply? *Chef's kiss intensifies.* Declaring "coding" an infantilizing word and anointing "programming" as the noble profession is the kind of pretentious energy that makes you simultaneously roll your eyes and nod in agreement. We're not just slapping semicolons together, we're *engineering solutions*. Or at least that's what we tell ourselves at 3 AM debugging a null pointer exception.
