https://www.fernandoux.com/tags/programming/Recent content in Programming on Fernando RuizHugoen-ushttps://www.fernandoux.com/en/wiki/ai/what-is-vibe-coding/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://www.fernandoux.com/en/wiki/ai/what-is-vibe-coding/<div class="info-panel"> <div class="info-header"> <span class="material-symbols-outlined info-panel-icon">info</span> <span class="info-panel-label">Quick Definition</span> </div> <div class="info-content"> <strong>Vibe coding</strong> is building software by describing in natural language what you want to an AI, and accepting the code it generates without a thorough review. Andrej Karpathy coined the term in February 2025, and in November 2025 Collins Dictionary named it Word of the Year. </div> </div> <h2 id="where-does-the-term-come-from">Where does the term come from?</h2> <p>Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI and former AI director at Tesla, coined it in a post on X in February 2025. He described &ldquo;a new kind of coding&rdquo; in which you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials and forget that the code even exists. In practice: talking to a coding tool, accepting all changes without reading the diffs and pasting error messages back. He himself said it was not too bad for throwaway weekend projects.</p>