Did Andrej Karpathy Just Admit Vibe Coding Doesn't Work?

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October 21, 2025
Gizmodo published a misleading headline claiming Andrej Karpathy, who coined the term "vibe coding," now says it doesn't work because he hand-coded his new AI model Nano Chat. The truth is vibe coding was always meant for throwaway projects and web apps, not cutting-edge AI research requiring 8,000 lines of clean code that current AI tools simply can't handle yet.