There's a New Kind of Coding I Call 'Vibe Coding'
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The February 2025 throwaway tweet that named a category. Karpathy describes 'vibe coding' as fully giving in to the vibes, embracing exponentials, forgetting the code exists — possible because Cursor Composer plus Sonnet plus SuperWhisper voice input crossed a usability threshold. 4.5M+ views, made it into Merriam-Webster, and split the discourse into 'vibe coding' (raises the floor for beginners) versus 'agentic engineering' (raises the ceiling for professionals). The single most-cited tweet in the agent era.
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