arXiv:2512.24939cs.HCcs.CL2025-12

LLM编程让界面变平滑,实则底层依赖加深。

Vibe Coding, Interface Flattening

  • 用接口扁平化解释LLM编程如何将多类交互融为对话
  • 远程计算与协议标准使控制权集中到模型提供方
  • 表面民主化背后是新依赖与知识垄断,适合关注AI权力结构者

大型语言模型正重塑编程方式,催生‘氛围编程’:通过自然语言与模型驱动的工具链互动来开发软件。本文认为,氛围编程本质上是接口扁平化——原本分离的图形界面、命令行和API等模态看似融合为单一对话界面,而从意图到机器执行的转换链条反而更长更复杂。基于弗里德里希·基特勒的媒介物质主义理论与亚历山大·加洛韦关于接口作为协议控制场域的观点,论文指出编程并非与计算本质关联,而是历史性的界面配置。通过对当代氛围编程栈的物质性重构,文章揭示远程计算基础设施、延迟与连通性、结构化输出、函数调用及互操作标准(如模型上下文协议)如何将控制权与意义建构力转移至模型与协议提供商。表面的技术能力普及,实则依赖于新的依附关系与新技能要求。通过凸显体验扁平化与基础设施复杂化的张力,本文展示LLM中介开发如何重新分配符号劳动与权力,模糊责任归属,并将原本分散在编程社区中的能力私有化,为理解人工智能中介的人机交互政治经济提供了批判视角。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large language models are reshaping programming by enabling 'vibe coding': the development of softwares through natural-language interaction with model-driven toolchains. This article argues that vibe coding is best understood as interface flattening, a reconfiguration in which previously distinct modalities (GUI, CLI, and API) appear to converge into a single conversational surface, even as the underlying chain of translation from intention to machinic effect lengthens and thickens. Drawing on Friedrich Kittler's materialist media theory and Alexander Galloway's account of interfaces as sites of protocol control, the paper situates programming as a historically localised interface arrangement rather than an essential relation to computation. Through a materialist reconstruction of the contemporary vibe-coding stack, it shows how remote compute infrastructures, latency and connectivity, structured outputs, function/tool calling, and interoperability standards such as the Model Context Protocol relocate control and meaning-making power to model and protocol providers. The apparent democratisation of technical capability therefore depends on new dependencies and new literacies. By foregrounding the tension between experiential flattening and infrastructural thickening, I demonstrate how LLM-mediated development redistributes symbolic labour/power, obscures responsibility, and privatises competencies previously dispersed across programming communities, contributing a critical lens on the political economy of AI-mediated human-computer interaction.

LLM编程接口扁平化权力结构AI政治经济

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