What is AI vibe coding? It's all the rage but it's not for everyone - here's why

jacus/Getty Images There's a new hot buzz in the world of coding called "vibe coding." It floated into the collective zeitgeist in early February, courtesy of a post on Twitter/X by Andrej Karpathy. Karpathy is no random Xwitter fiend. He has a Stanford Ph.D. in natural language, computer vision, and deep learning models. He was head of AI at Tesla and was one of the co-founders of OpenAI. Today, he's running an education startup called Eureka Labs, which is producing AI courseware. Vibe coding, deconstructed So when someone with that resume suggests there is a new way of coding called "vibe coding, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists," folks listen. In some ways, it seems like a license to avoid all of coding's pesky best practices, the things that make coding more work than play. And, in many ways, it is permission to just go with the flow. Also: The best AI for coding in 2025 (and what not to use) Let's first decons ... Read full article.