# Vibe coding vs agentic coding (Ralph Wiggum loop)

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vibe-coding-vs-agentic-coding-ralph-wiggum-loop/135389
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**Created:** [February 1, 2026, 6:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vibe-coding-vs-agentic-coding-ralph-wiggum-loop/135389 "2026-02-01T18:51:04Z")
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#### Post date: [February 2, 2026, 8:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vibe-coding-vs-agentic-coding-ralph-wiggum-loop/135389/9 "2026-02-02T20:07:07Z")

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> [@PetrKryslUCSD](#):
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> what is the _point_ of this post?

Good point. 🙂 It was actually (in part) to get to you and others dismissive of AI. It’s been very eye-opening for me the last few days to see what AI is capable of for coding (and more, e.g. Moltbook/OpenClaw). Yes, 130.000 lines of code in two weeks is not the best metric to good software, why I quoted more of the blog post on the (seemingly highly capable/intriguing) compiler. It’s not using LLVM, an example of recreating such a library…

If you’re NOT going to review the generated code, it doesn’t matter if the generated code is Julia or other language. It can be a made-for-AI language, like nanolang (as mentioned in the first video), or Elixir with the highest score (97.5), or Kotlin, Racket, C#, Ruby, Julia (78.0) in that order, 6th highest ranked. Or the AI could choose on its own depending on what’s best for the application, or any combination of languages…

> **[GitHub - jordanhubbard/nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be...](https://github.com/jordanhubbard/nanolang)**
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> A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs

The same goes for libraries. Theo is no longer using libraries as much (see another of his videos), because the AI just reimplements them. Other’s claim you can get $10.42 an hour coding, “_syntax level_ programming”, since you’re competing with that cost for paying for the tokens, the AI needs to code 24/7. Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be programming with the AI by making specs (agentic coding), the only way to still be valuable; by actually letting the AI do that too for you then interview you on needed changes…

> [@asinghvi17](#):
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> I think it’s
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> > I would like to know how many here are vibe coding, or agentic coding, with good results in Julia or other languages, and subjective feeling of which language, and tools to do it with feel best.
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> (though that does get lost in the rest of the post 😅)

Exactly, why I’ve now trimmed it (and added an EDIT at the top).

> [@Mason](#):
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> The post itself is a good example of why we have this (relatively hard to enforce) guideline: [Guidelines - Julia Programming Language](https://discourse.julialang.org/faq#keep-tidy:)
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> > Don’t post generative AI outputs

I dropped clearly marked offtopic from the end: Moltbook’s (and OpenClaw’s) _main_ point aren’t coding, I just find it highly intriguing the AI has it’s own social network by now, and this AI assistant, posting there, and it’s a bit related to my main AI point so I showed the AI output… now gone, is in history.

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