Mandarin speakers call using LLM coding agents "pedaling" — an outsider decodes the slang
fredahshi · x · 2026-11-03
A Chinese-fluent foreigner shares how she finally understood a piece of Mandarin AI slang: using an LLM coding agent is called "pedaling" (蹬车), as if the agent were a special bike you must keep pushing forward. She quips that after complaining about weird English verbs, Chinese turns out to have its own oddly vivid verb for working with coding agents.
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