Vibe Coding
Trend & aesthetic · 2025 · Notable
An AI coding phrase entered dictionaries; its seed X post showed 7.3M views.
Andrej Karpathy
@karpathy · Feb 2, 2025
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. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper
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How it worksNumbers
- Seed post only: live X view counter, rounded
- 7.3M
- As of Oct 14, 2026 · X · Andrej Karpathy / X
- Peak date
- Week of Mar 26, 2025
- Feb 2 ’25 to Week of Mar 26, 2025
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- 4
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- Origin
- Organic
- Technology
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Trace the originKarpathy named the practice in an X post. Creators shared experiments; press carried it beyond the AI community. Debate over code review and a reported database deletion followed. Collins selected the phrase as its Word of the Year.
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