Last year, Collins Dictionary’s word of 2024 was “Brat”, based on the online phenomenon caused by Charli XCX’s mega-hit album.

This year, their pick is similarly Very Online: they’ve chosen “vibe coding” (technically two words, but hey, they’re the language experts).

The dictionary said that the term “was popularised by Andrej Karpathy, former Director of AI at Tesla and founding engineer at OpenAI, to describe how AI enables creative output while he could ‘forget that the code even exists’”.

All well and good – but, sorry, just quickly, WTF does that actually mean?

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…

What does “vibe coding” mean?

To understand “vibe coding,” you need to know the difference between a large language model (LLM) prompt, ie telling ChatGPT to........

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