Patient ships code they cannot explain. The tests pass, the app works, the reasoning is proprietary to a large language model. Confidence remains high.
Will continue shipping. The bugs will not be their fault.
None. Understanding is not required.
Patients with Severe Vibe-Coder's Syndrome typically present with some or all of the following:
Patients diagnosed with Severe Vibe-Coder's Syndrome present with a cluster of recognizable behaviors we have, on reflection, decided to name. The condition is fictional. The behaviors, unfortunately, are not. Someone in your life is showing at least two of them right now.
The Institute's taxonomic entry lists it as Codicis fidei operativa, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.
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