Is Vibe Coding a 'Fire of Prometheus' for Non-Developer Clinicians, Especially Clinical Radiologists?

Sung Il Hwang¹, Hunjong Lim², Kyong Joon Lee¹, Hak Jong Lee³, Hyungwoo Ahn¹, Yoojin Nam^4,5, Masahiro Jinzaki⁶

¹Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea.

²Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seongnam, Republic of Korea. limhunjong@naver.com.

³Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seongnam, Republic of Korea.

⁴Department of Radiology and Research Institute of Radiology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

⁵Aperivue, Incheon, Republic of Korea.

⁶Department of Radiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

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Abstract

Vibe coding is a workflow in which users describe the desired software behavior in natural language, following which large language models (LLMs) generate the code. It is increasingly being used by non-developer clinicians without any formal programming training to create tools that support the clinical workflow. This development is both timely and consequential for radiology, one of the specialti…

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