What does “vibe coding” mean?
Vibe coding is building software by describing what you want to an AI and accepting what it writes, without reading every line.
Where it comes from
Coined by the AI researcher Andrej Karpathy in February 2025.
Vibe Coding in a sentence
- I vibe coded a budget app over the weekend.
- Vibe coding is fine for a prototype, risky for a bank.
Can you say it at work?
Common in tech teams; some say it admiringly, some as a warning.
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