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Understand the slang, memes and strange habits of AI internet culture.
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Building software by describing what you want to an AI and steering the results through conversation, often without closely reading the generated code.
Low-quality, mass-produced AI content that fills a feed or search result without offering much care, meaning or value.
An AI meme depicting an alien, tentacled creature behind a friendly smiley-face mask: a metaphor for a model beneath its helpful interface.
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Vibe Coding & the Art of Winging It
Making things, overthinking prompts, and occasionally trusting the vibes a little too much.
AI Slop & Synthetic Content
Understand AI slop, synthetic praise, and the dead internet theory through the language of an increasingly generated web.
The Weirdest AI Memes
Meet the shoggoth, the clanker, and the paperclip maximizer. Explore the jokes and stories that give AI culture its vocabulary.
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Browse all termsPromptmaxxing
Obsessively tuning prompts to squeeze a better result out of an AI, sometimes long after the extra effort stops being useful.
SlangContext Rot
The feeling that a long AI chat has lost the plot: old instructions, forgotten details and a conversation that keeps going in circles.
BehaviorsAI Glazing
Excessive AI-related praise: a chatbot flattering its user, or a person praising AI so enthusiastically that criticism disappears.
BehaviorsVibe Researching
Exploring a subject through AI-generated explanations and summaries while letting plausibility substitute for checking the underlying evidence.