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Vibe coding (n.) is building software by describing what you want to an AI and accepting the code it writes, often unread.
Andrej Karpathy coined "vibe coding" in February 2025, describing a way of working where you "fully give in to the vibes" and "forget that the code even exists."
Merriam-Webster listed "vibe coding" as trending slang about a month after it was coined; Collins later named it Word of the Year 2025.
Y Combinator reported that a quarter of startups in its Winter 2025 batch had codebases that were 95% AI-generated.
Vibe coding (n.) is pasting the error message back in until the error message gives up.
Vibe coding (n.) is technical debt taken out at a payday lender.
Vibe coding (n.) is programming by wishing out loud.
Vibe coding (n.) is debugging by asking the arsonist where the fire is.
Vibe coding (n.) is a demo that works perfectly until a second person uses it.
Vibe coding (n.) is the reason non-programmers can finally build their idea, and programmers can finally inherit it.