Vibe Coding: What It Is, Where It Comes From, and What It Can Really Do

Vibe Coding: What It Is, Where It Comes From, and What It Can Really Do On February 2, 2025, Andrej Karpathy — former Tesla AI chief and OpenAI co-founder — wrote a short post on X. He described a new way of programming where you "fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponential growth, and forget that code even exists." He called it Vibe Coding . Since then, the term is everywhere. Collins Dictionary named it Word of the Year 2025. Y Combinator reported that a quarter of their W25 batch has apps that are 95 percent AI-generated. Millions of people worldwide are building software without ever writing a line of code. But what exactly is Vibe Coding? And — more importantly — what can it really do? What Is Vibe Coding? With Vibe Coding, you describe in natural language what you want your software to do. An AI model — such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini — writes the code. You test whether it works. If not, you describe the problem, and the AI corrects it. The key difference: you don't need t