{"id":304967,"date":"2026-02-27T14:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/304967\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:18:10","slug":"guy-who-coined-vibe-coding-says-programming-is-unrecognizable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/304967\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy Who Coined ‘Vibe Coding’ Says Programming Is ‘Unrecognizable’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The AI coding timeline is accelerating, according to the guy who coined “vibe coding<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Andrej Karpathy has a long list of AI bona fides. He was a founding member<\/a> of OpenAI, left to lead AI at Tesla, then returned to the ChatGPT-maker and eventually started his own lab. In early 2025, he introduced the term vibe coding into the zeitgeist.<\/p>\n

In his latest X post<\/a>, Karpathy described a speed-up in agentic coding, one that has taken place in just a few months. “Coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

These agents are “extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow,” Karpathy wrote.<\/p>\n

He gave an example. Over the weekend, Karpathy said he used AI to make a video analysis dashboard for his home cameras. His AI agent completed it in 30 minutes, encountering errors and researching solutions. It was all hands-free, he wrote.<\/p>\n

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“Programming is becoming unrecognizable,” Karpathy wrote. “This is nowhere near ‘business as usual’ time in software.”<\/p>\n

Posts like these are now Karpathy’s specialty: long, multi-paragraph takes on the state of software engineering. In one recent post, the creator of Claude Code<\/a> commented<\/a> that Karpathy always had a “very thoughtful and well reasoned take.”<\/p>\n

In the comments on this post, an AI developer asked about the state of software engineers. “Are teams of hundreds of people going to be replaced by a few chosen prompters?” they asked.<\/p>\n

“Vibe coders are now able to get somewhere, but at the top tiers, deep technical expertise may be even more of a multiplier than before because of the added leverage,” Karpathy responded<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some big names in AI aren’t so thrilled with Karpathy’s linguistic invention. OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger<\/a> called vibe coding “a slur,” arguing that it implied coding with AI was easy and didn’t still involve real work.<\/p>\n

In another comment, Karpathy referenced an old Tesla slogan: “Every action is error.” The goal is to arrange your agents so you can “remove yourself as the bottleneck,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

For many, coding with AI can feel fantastical. Karpathy offered a quick reality check: the agents require “high-level direction” and (the frequently memed<\/a>) “taste.”<\/p>\n

“It’s not magic, it’s delegation,” he wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The AI coding timeline is accelerating, according to the guy who coined “vibe coding.” Andrej Karpathy has a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-304967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}