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Facebook Email X<\/p>\n LinkedIn<\/p>\n Reddit<\/p>\n Bluesky<\/p>\n WhatsApp<\/p>\n Copy link<\/p>\n lighning bolt icon Impact Link<\/p>\n Save <\/p>\n Read in app<\/p>\n <\/a> <\/p>\n This story is available exclusively to Business Insider “Vibe-coding” is Collins Dictionary’s “word of the year” for 2025. AI is changing everything \u2014 including the English lexicon.<\/p>\n Andrej Karpathy, the OpenAI cofounder and former AI director at Tesla, coined the term<\/a> “vibe-coding” in a post on X in February. Nine months later, it’s an official word in the dictionary.<\/p>\n “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,” Karpathy wrote.<\/p>\n “It’s possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good,” he added.<\/p>\n Since then, vibe-coding has not only become a bona fide word in tech circles, but a legitimate skill<\/a> that can command sizable salaries.<\/p>\n Collins Dictionary, a dictionary now published by Harper Collins with a more than 200-year history, named vibe-coding its 2025 word of the year this week.<\/p>\n Collins categorizes it as a noun, and a slang term, and defines it as “the use of artificial intelligence prompted by natural language to assist with the writing of computer code.”<\/p>\n
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\n The term was originally coined by OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy in February.<\/p>\n