frame candidate goes to: this-edition E explorer
Explorer coding: what people call vibe coding, done as exploring
Anyone with a need explores it by building, with the fast feedback loop that made spreadsheets win; it is not a way to ship, it is a way to find out.
Decided by. Nobody yet: a candidate for Dinis to read, comment on and decide (keep, rewrite, merge, cut, article first, later, not doing it).
Where it comes from
- Explorer coding the definition (newsroom)
- A browser for one frustration plus the power to build (newsroom)
What it answers in the 2018 book
- REPL answered outline, Concepts
- Thinking as programmer answered outline, Life Patterns
Where it goes
Chapter Explorer coding, not vibe coding, and the handover, part The frame (drafting); topic Explorers, villagers and town planners (Wardley's frame).
Other ideas proposed for the same chapter: The deployment gap is a handover, and the prototype is the best brief, Design, the design canon and Christopher Alexander: the villager's and town planner's craft, Gen ZX are developers: coding with agents the explorer coding way, which is what vibe coding should be called.
Node idea:explorer-coding in graph.json; see it in the graph. Source: admin/content/graph/ideas.json.