Andrej Karpathy coins “vibe coding”
Confirmed
The takeaway
On Feb 2, 2025 Andrej Karpathy posted on X: ‘There’s a new kind of coding I call “vibe coding”, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.’
Status
- Claim
Confirmed
- Our reporting
- High confidence
- Importance
- 3 of 5
- Last verified
- 29 September 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 AstraIn its training data
- Claude Opus 5.5In its training data
- Gemini 4 HydrogenIn its training data
- Grok 4.7In its training data
It happened before the cutoffs of all four assistants, so it can be in their training data.
Key facts
- Posted Feb 2, 2025 on X by @karpathy
- Named tools: Cursor Composer with Sonnet, SuperWhisper for voice
- Describes accepting all changes, pasting error messages back without comment, and code growing beyond his comprehension, ‘not too bad for throwaway weekend projects’
- ‘Vibe coding’ was named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2025
What happened
A casual post describing a new way to program with LLM agents gave a name to a shift that was already happening, and it became one of the most-used AI terms of 2025.
Why it matters
It marks the cultural moment when non-experts and professionals began building software mostly by instructing AI, the trend that coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex then pushed into mainstream engineering.
Sources
2 sources from 2 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
2 sources: 1 primary, 1 press
Primary
- Andrej Karpathy on X: vibe codingx.com, official
Press
Changes
- Filed (primary source checked)
