What is vibe coding? The 2025 word of the year, explained

The short answer

Vibe coding means describing what you want in plain language and letting an AI write the actual code — often without reading what it wrote. The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy in February 2025,…

What it is — describe an app in plain English; the AI writes the code

Where it's from — Karpathy, Feb 2025; Collins Word of the Year 2025

How you do it — tools like Lovable, Bolt, Replit, v0

The catch — the code still exists, and you still own what it does

The two-sentence version

Vibe coding is telling an AI what you want and letting it write the app. It's a real, powerful shift — just remember that "forget the code exists" is advice about how it feels, not about who's…