Automatic Programming
last updated: Feb 05, 2026
In my YouTube channel, for some time now I started to refer to the process of writing software using AI assistance (soon to become just "the process of writing software", I believe) with the term "Automatic Programming".
In case you didn't notice, automatic programming produces vastly different results with the same LLMs depending on the human that is guiding the process with their intuition, design, continuous steering and idea of software.
I like this term. I'm using AI assistance on hatchat, mdriver and aver among others, but most of the time I don't think vibe coding captures what I'm doing - I care about the result and the methods and guide the machine towards what I want.
via Thorsten Ball