'Vibe Coding' Trend Highlights AI's Development Speed
A trend known as "vibecoding" is gaining traction, where developers use advanced AI models to rapidly build complex applications. One developer shared their experience building a mobile app, agent, and backend in just three afternoons. Another claimed to have built complex software with hundreds of thousands of lines of code using this AI-assisted approach, highlighting its potential to accelerate product development.
- The term "vibe coding" was coined in February 2025 by Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI and Tesla's former Director of AI. He described it as a developer using natural language to direct a large language model (LLM), which then generates the code, allowing the developer to focus on the goal rather than the implementation details. - The concept gained mainstream recognition rapidly, with Merriam-Webster adding "vibe coding" to its list of trending slang in March 2025 and Collins English Dictionary naming it the 2025 Word of the Year. - This approach is seeing significant adoption in the startup ecosystem. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan noted that for 25% of the startups in the accelerator's Winter 2025 batch, 95% of their code was generated using AI tools. [cite:
