Vibe Coding - a Great Tool if You Know How to Use It

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There's a new approach to app development on the rise, and it sounds almost magical. You describe what you want in natural language such as, "Build me a dashboard with a login form and dark mode," and an artificial intelligence assistant writes the code. You test it, tweak it, ask for a few style changes, and before long, you've got a working prototype.

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Welcome to vibe coding.

The term, coined by Andrej Karpathy in early 2025, describes a new rhythm of development powered by AI copilots. It's informal, improvisational and highly iterative: "I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff and copy-paste stuff - and it mostly works," Karpathy quipped on X. He's not ...