Vibe coding

1 of our books defines this term.

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

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”