Slang & Culture
Vibe Coding
Programming by prompting an AI coding assistant and iterating based on whether the output “feels” right, rather than reading the generated code line by line.
Origin
Coined by Andrej Karpathy (profiled on our Who’s Who page) in a February 2, 2025 post: “There’s a new kind of coding I call ‘vibe coding’... you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.” Named Collins Dictionary’s 2025 Word of the Year.