(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 April 30, 2025
Get the vibe codingmug. by acoye March 19, 2025
Get the Vibe Codingmug. When you give the wheel to someone less qualified than Jesus to solve your engineering and software quandaries: Generative AI
We taught this chimpanzee how to do vibe coding. You won't believe what happened next: He hung himself!
by Somebody, but not Nobody March 27, 2025
Get the vibe codingmug. Vibe coding is the practice of relying heavily, even exclusively, on AI generated code for a programming project. Programming on vibes alone, as expressed to the AI in natural language. Term coined by Andrej Karpathy in an X post on Feb 2, 2025.
by jimbojw March 16, 2025
Get the vibe codingmug. When a programmer describes a problem in a few sentences as a prompt to a large language model (LLM) tuned for coding.
by trojan-mutt March 13, 2025
Get the vibe codingmug. Code or a project you throw together by telling an AI stuff like “make it sick” or “whip up a cool app.” It’s dope for cranking out ideas quick, letting anyone with a vibe turn it into something real, no coding degree needed. If you’re on point with clear directions, you get a solid base to work with. But if you’re just vibing with no plan, you’ll end up with a janky, bug-filled mess that barely runs.
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Example 1:
“This vibe coded game looks cool as hell, but ‘make it fun’ left it buggier than a cheap phone.”
Example 2:
“Her vibe coded site’s straight-up fire—clean, works great, ‘cause she told the AI exactly what she wanted.”
“This vibe coded game looks cool as hell, but ‘make it fun’ left it buggier than a cheap phone.”
Example 2:
“Her vibe coded site’s straight-up fire—clean, works great, ‘cause she told the AI exactly what she wanted.”
by not_MRZ August 12, 2025
Get the Vibe Codedmug. The act of describing a programming task in natural language and letting an AI, like ChatGPT, generate the actual code.
by KurssiHakuses March 21, 2025
Get the Vibe codingmug.