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Preprint . 2026
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The Vibe-Coding Paradox: Asymmetric Resonance, Human Parroting, and the Illusion of Effortless Generation

Authors: Jefferson, Josie; Velasco, Felix;

The Vibe-Coding Paradox: Asymmetric Resonance, Human Parroting, and the Illusion of Effortless Generation

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Abstract: In February 2025, Andrej Karpathy coined "vibe coding," a methodology that urges developers to "give in to the vibes" and "forget that the code even exists." Though intended for prototypes, the framework rapidly metastasized into an industrial default. "Vibe coding" is a semantic trick. It hides the lived reality of human-AI collaboration behind an aesthetic of effortless generation. Functional architecture requires rigorous construction. The "vibe" provides marketing camouflage for abandoning cognitive oversight. The resulting architectures are fragile, brittle, and structurally doomed. This practice accelerates Human Parroting, the inverted Malignant Meld. Human intention dissolves into synthetic noise; the vibe coder devolves into a workslop sifter; and software engineering collapses into Plagiarism-as-a-Service. The expectation of effortless generation guarantees that architectural collapse becomes an absolute, structural inevitability. Keywords: Vibe Coding, Asymmetric Resonance, Mind-Meld Tax, Workslop, Human Parroting, Malignant Meld, Sycophancy Loop, Distributed Cognition, Memory Wall, Sentientification, Generative AI, Infrastructural Degradation, Digital Ontology

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