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vibe coding

noun
/ˈvaɪb ˈkoʊ.dɪŋ/US

Etymology

Coined by Slovakian-Canadian AI researcher Andrej Karpathy in February 2025 (see quotation).

Definitions

  1. A method of programming in which a developer generates code by repeatedly prompting a…

    A method of programming in which a developer generates code by repeatedly prompting a large language model.

    • There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.

  2. present participle and gerund of vibe code

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for vibe coding. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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