People definitely are doing that. Anyone who is not a programmer and asks the LLM to write a program is doing exactly that. The LLM will do that itself behind the scenes nowadays (yesterday Claude wrote a Python program when I simply asked it to give me the document it wrote in Word format!).

References: This is the original definition ("forget that the code even exists"). [0] Simon Willison wrote a much longer version of my comment. [1] He also suggested the term "vibe engineering" for the case where you are reviewing the LLM output. [2]

[0] https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383

[1] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/19/vibe-coding/

[2] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/vibe-engineering/