Instead of writing the code yourself, with vibe coding you’re overseeing your AI assistant doing it for you and critiquing its results.
— Vibe Coding, in “Introduction”, Gene Kim, Steve Yegge
Vibe coding
1 of our books defines this term.
Coined by Andrej Karpathy, 2025.
It was coined by the legendary Dr. Andrej Karpathy, who has been at the forefront of AI research for a decade, to describe a new way of programming.
— Vibe Coding, in “Introduction”
See also CHOP (Chat-Oriented Programming) · Leaf Node · One-Shot Query · Agent · Agentic coding · Chat coding
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