What is Vibe Coding?
What in the world is vibe coding? Is it just being lazy and letting AI write all your code for you? Or is it about chilling out while manifesting the next big B2B SaaS idea?

Let’s break it down.

Vibe Coding Explained
Vibe coding is basically the practice of leaning on AI tools and agents to handle most of the heavy lifting when it comes to writing code. Instead of grinding through every line yourself, you focus more on the bigger picture:

How the app works
What features it should have
The overall functionality and outcome
In other words, vibe coding frees you up to be more of a manager or director of your project, while AI handles the repetitive coding side.

Where Did the Term Come From?
The phrase “vibe coding” was coined by Andrej Karpathy who is a super early member at OpenAI and just a really famous guy and a thought leader in the AI ecosystem. He introduced the term vibe coding in February 2025. We all know I think everyone in the AI community knew that something was up for the past few months seeing people almost build entirely with AI and share their sort of experience online. But he was the first one to put the term to the name.  Since then it started getting associated with like this Rick Rubin where he’s like you know the sort of vibing to some music and after it really blew up when Rick Rubin came out and did not acknowledge the term vibe coding.

At the core, vibe coding simply means using AI agents and editors with built-in AI features to build applications through natural language—or even voice commands.

What’s striking is the pace of progress: about every 7 months, the scope of what AI can do on its own has been doubling.

A few years back, GitHub Copilot could only autocomplete a line.
Six or seven months later, it could write full functions.
Soon after, it was generating parts of files and features in apps.
Now, AI agents are capable of creating entire applications.
This trend has been observed, measured, and appears to follow a pretty reliable trajectory.

https://vibecodingengineer.com/what-is-vibe-coding-a-new-era-of-ai-driven-coding/