Writing barely functioning code with no hope of maintaining or understanding it using AI — a technique mostly used by tech bros who lost all their money on NFTs and are now trying to be relevant again.
Tyler just finished vibe coding an app, and now I have to fix his unreadable lines of stinking shit masquerading as functional code.
by lorrinc_sajnos May 11, 2025
(noun / verb)
When a programmer codes purely based on intuition, mood, or spontaneous inspiration rather than following strict plans or detailed requirements. Often involves listening to good music, being in the zone, and creating elegant or experimental code just because it feels right.
When a programmer codes purely based on intuition, mood, or spontaneous inspiration rather than following strict plans or detailed requirements. Often involves listening to good music, being in the zone, and creating elegant or experimental code just because it feels right.
“Dude, it's 3 AM, you're still up?” “Yeah man, I'm vibe coding—just refactoring and seeing where the night takes me.”
by paul.peanuts May 01, 2025
"Why did you drop out of your Computer Science degree?"
"We don't need to code anymore man, vibe coding is where it's at."
"We don't need to code anymore man, vibe coding is where it's at."
by parmesancheese April 02, 2025
Describes a type of practice where someone utilizes AI assistant tools and premade script templates to write code. Usually they do not understand the code or know how to read it, but use a guess and check method to attempt to achieve their desired results. Older internet denizens might have called this type of person a 'script kiddie'. While there are many people who enjoy this as a hobby and professionally, it is often used for nefarious means and can be risky.
My cousin has spent the past week doing nothing but vibe coding trying to write an app to make him rich day trading on the Canadian stock market but all he has done so far is accidently give a social media hacker access to his porn and credit cards folder
by onemangim April 30, 2025
Definition:
When you open up ChatGPT, whisper "do it for me please" into the void, and pretend you're a developer while the AI does 110% of the work. You have no idea what’s happening, but you’re nodding like a proud parent watching their kid win a science fair they didn’t even enter.
When you open up ChatGPT, whisper "do it for me please" into the void, and pretend you're a developer while the AI does 110% of the work. You have no idea what’s happening, but you’re nodding like a proud parent watching their kid win a science fair they didn’t even enter.
"Bro look at this cool app I just built in like 5 minutes vibe coding."
*Proceeds to send a localhost3000 url*
*Proceeds to send a localhost3000 url*
by AutistPreben April 29, 2025
When you try to get AI to do the coding for you with prompt engineering and find out it takes more work to use the prompt than to actually do the work yourself.
by DataWillConfess April 09, 2025
An AI-dependent programming technique, coined by ex-OpenAI wizard Andrej Karpathy where developers "fully give into the vibes, embrace exponentials and forget that the code even exists".
In other words, it's where random non-technical monkeys with little to no programming language, dish out sloppy games and other software through blindly copy-pasting AI generated code from LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor to make fast and easy money.
This can lead to unprotected APIs or endpoints, lack of input validation, weak/no encryption etc and potentially even result in the final product being taken down permanently and the guy will have to beg for his job back at Popeyes.
In other words, it's where random non-technical monkeys with little to no programming language, dish out sloppy games and other software through blindly copy-pasting AI generated code from LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor to make fast and easy money.
This can lead to unprotected APIs or endpoints, lack of input validation, weak/no encryption etc and potentially even result in the final product being taken down permanently and the guy will have to beg for his job back at Popeyes.
Example 1:
Person 1: Hey! I've been vibe coding this new game, can't wait to make so much money
Person 2: I've watched Fireship's video. Hope you use the RETARD tech stack (React, Express, Tailwind, Redis, Deno)
Example 1:
Person 1: Hey! I've finished vibe-coding my new application through the Cursor IDE
Person 2: Can't wait to bypass your subscription, max out API key usage and create random shit on the DB
Person 1: Hey! I've been vibe coding this new game, can't wait to make so much money
Person 2: I've watched Fireship's video. Hope you use the RETARD tech stack (React, Express, Tailwind, Redis, Deno)
Example 1:
Person 1: Hey! I've finished vibe-coding my new application through the Cursor IDE
Person 2: Can't wait to bypass your subscription, max out API key usage and create random shit on the DB
by Skedaddled March 27, 2025