all things vibecoding

a tool, or the act of using it, that scans source code for likely bugs, style problems, and risky patterns without running the program. the tool itself is called a linter.

an automatic proofreader for your code. it flags mistakes and sloppy spots before the app ever runs, so problems get caught early. people also say "a lint" to mean one such automated check.

ga stands for general availability. to ga something, past tense "ga'd", is to release it from beta or preview into a stable, fully supported version available to everyone.

it went from "try it at your own risk" to officially released and safe to rely on. if a feature is ga'd, it is finished and open to all users, not an experiment.

negative prompting is telling a model what to avoid or exclude rather than what to do, for example "do not mention pricing", or in image tools, listing what you do not want in the picture. anti-negative prompting is the counter-practice: because models tend to fixate on whatever you name, even to forbid it, you instead phrase everything as what you do want.

telling the ai "don't do x" can backfire, because naming x can make it show up more. the fix is to say what you do want instead of what you don't. "write it in plain language" works better than "don't be wordy".

when false, malicious, or low-quality information gets into a model's context window, the text it is currently working from, and then skews everything it produces afterward, because the model treats whatever is in context as true and keeps building on it.

once bad info gets into the ai's working memory for a session, it keeps trusting and repeating it, so later answers get contaminated too. the usual fix is to start a fresh chat.