• ThunderComplex@lemmy.today
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    6 hours ago

    One thing tho: -cel isn’t a suffix. Incel is a portmanteau of involuntary celibate, i.e. someone who wants to have sex but doesn’t.
    Codecel should thus mean someone who wants to code but doesn’t, which honestly sounds like what a vibecoder would be.

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      3 hours ago

      I think in this case the origin of “-cel” is a portmanteau, but its usage has shifted to a suffix. “Codecel” isn’t a portmanteau of “coder celibate”, it’s become a mockery of incels to use it as a suffix for “loser who’s obsessed with this thing”.