'Vibe coding' is the 2025 word of the year by Collins Dictionary. What does it mean?

'Vibe coding' is the 2025 word of the year by Collins Dictionary. What does it mean?

'Vibe coding' is all about using everyday language to tell artificial intelligence what you want it to build, instead of typing out complex lines of code yourself. The term was coined in February 2025 by Andrej Karpathy, former AI director at Tesla and a founding engineer at OpenAI and has since seen a massive jump in its usage