What is vibe coding? Andrej Karpathy's new term explained
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November 7, 2025
Andrej Karpathy coined "vibe coding" in February—it's building software by talking to AI in plain English instead of writing actual code. I literally speak into my mic and describe what I want, like an interactive quiz that captures emails, and the AI creates the files and folder structure. Tools like Lovable feel like ChatGPT, while Cursor looks like a real dev environment but you're still just chatting.