Vibe coding, a term capturing the use of artificial intelligence prompted by natural language to write computer code, has been named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year 2025, reflecting society’s evolving relationship with technology and a broader cultural shift towards AI-assisted everything in everyday life.
Coined by AI pioneer Andrej Karpathy, vibe coding refers to telling a machine what you want rather than painstakingly coding it yourself — programming by vibes, not variables.
Coined by AI pioneer Andrej Karpathy, vibe coding refers to telling a machine what you want rather than painstakingly coding it yourself — programming by vibes, not variables.