the AI researcher Andrej Karpathy coined the term “vibe coding” to describe the act of building software with LLMs, while barely paying attention to the underlying code. “It’s not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing,” he wrote. “I’m building a project or webapp, but it’s not really coding — I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.” (View Highlight)
As Jaana Dogan, a principal engineer at rival Google, put it in a post with more than 8 million views: “We have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. There are various options, not everyone is aligned… I gave Claude Code a description of the problem, it generated what we built last year in an hour.” (She had begun her post with: “I’m not joking and this isn’t funny.“) (View Highlight)