Ask HN: What verb best describes what a developer does in 2026?

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Before agents entered the scene, the answer was obvious: A developer writes or creates software.While software craftsmen mourned the death of their craft, reality moved on. In February 2025, Andrej Karpathy ingeniously coined the term vibe coding (which hit Merriam-Webster as a slang term shortly after) to describe the shift from hand-writing code to steering the agent. But the honeymoon didn t last. Amateurs quickly ruined the vibe when their weekend projects got routinely annihilated upon hitting production, finally giving vibe-coding a bad rep.Admitting to agent authorship feels honest, but also sounds like a confession and does nothing to build a professional identity: I wrote this with the help of [Agent]. or I let [Agent] write this. Brand-derived verbs feel clumsy:* I clankered* I clauded / I claudified* I codexedMy best shots so far:* I tokencrafted * I vibecrafted So, what verb do you use to describe your daily grind or agent management? (At least until we can go back to writing software in a few years).

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