{"id":383815,"date":"2026-01-01T02:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/383815\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T02:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:19:08","slug":"rewind-2025-when-teslas-former-ai-director-gave-world-the-word-that-has-changed-how-software-engineers-work-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/383815\/","title":{"rendered":"Rewind 2025: When Tesla’s former AI director gave world the ‘word’ that has changed how software engineers work forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RewindAI generated image for representation This year, or in February 2025 to be precise, Andrej Karpathy, the former director of AI at Tesla and a founding member of OpenAI, gave the technology world a new word — Vibe Coding. Karpathy came up with the word to represent how AI can let some programmers “forget that the code even exists” and “give in to the vibes” while making a computer program. The word became an overnight buzzword in Silicon Valley. And as the year ended, UK’s Collins Dictionary picked it up as the word of the year. It was one of 10 words on a shortlist to reflect the mood, language and preoccupations of 2025.As to how Andrej Karpathy described the word, here’s the definition Karpathy shared on Twitter, “I’ve never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like a skill issue. There’s a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.”<\/p>\n

Will Vibe Coding take away tech jobs<\/p>\n

Is Vibe Coding and advanced capabilities of AI just the nail in the coffin when it comes to the traditional views of computer programming and software development skills? The debate is ongoing, with strong voices on both sides. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan told CNBC earlier this year that app developers can now offload or automate more repetitive tasks, and they can generate new code using Large Language Models (LLMs). The ability for AI to subsidize an otherwise heavy workload has allowed these companies to build with fewer people.” Tan said. \u201cThat sounds a little scary, but on the other hand, what that means for founders is that you don\u2019t need a team of 50 or 100 engineers. You know, maybe it\u2019s that engineer who couldn\u2019t get a job at Meta or Google, who actually can build a standalone business making 10 or 100 million dollars a year with 10 people,\u201d Tan says. \u201cLike that\u2019s such a powerful moment in software.” Tan tweeted another not-so-happy stat for engineers: 25% of the current crop of Y Combinator startups used LLMs (AI large language models) to write 95% of their lines of code.Cursor CEO Michael Truell recently warned that Vibe coding builds \u2018shaky foundations\u2019 and eventually \u2018things start to crumble\u2019. Truell reportedly likened it to building a house by putting up four walls and a roof without knowing what\u2019s going on under the floorboards or with the wiring. This coding method may be perfect for AI users looking to quickly mock up a game or website, but when it comes to more advanced programming, things have the potential to go wrong, he warned, as per a report in Fortune. \u201cIf you close your eyes and you don\u2019t look at the code and you have AIs build things with shaky foundations as you add another floor, and another floor, and another floor, and another floor, things start to kind of crumble,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

How Collins Dictionary defines Vibe Coding<\/p>\n

Alex Beecroft, managing director of Collins, said, \u201cThe selection of \u2018vibe coding\u2019 as Collins\u2019 Word of the Year perfectly captures how language is evolving alongside technology.\u201d Collins\u2019 definition of Vibe Coding states, \u201cvibe coding\u201d is \u201cthe use of artificial intelligence prompted by natural language to assist with the writing of computer code.\u201d Or, as a blog post on the dictionary\u2019s website explains: \u201cBasically, telling a machine what you want rather than painstakingly coding it yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI generated image for representation This year, or in February 2025 to be precise, Andrej Karpathy, the former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,191827,132626,254,255,64,63,206361,19941,206363,206362,105,4201],"class_list":["post-383815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-in-software-development","tag-andrej-karpathy","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-collins-dictionary-word-of-the-year","tag-large-language-models","tag-michael-truell-cursor","tag-tech-jobs-future","tag-technology","tag-vibe-coding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}