There's a new kind of coding I call “vibe coding” (original post)
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The origin post that coined 'vibe coding' — fully giving in to the vibes, forgetting the code exists — and the etymological root of the entire term family, agentic engineering included.
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The artifact itself: a few hundred characters in February 2025 that named a behavior everyone with access to a capable model had already noticed in themselves. Karpathy described giving in to the vibes — talking to the model, accepting the diffs, barely reading the code — and having a working project at the end of it.
The post is included here as a primary source, not a recommendation. Everything else in this vault is, one way or another, a response to it: Willison bounding it, Yegge and Kim professionalizing it, Karpathy himself superseding it a year later.
Terms that name real behavior spread fastest; this one crossed from engineering Twitter to mainstream tech press within weeks, and…
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The origin post that coined 'vibe coding' — fully giving in to the vibes, forgetting the code exists — and the etymological root of the entire term family, agentic engineering included.
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"There's a new kind of coding I call “vibe coding” (original post)" was written by Andrej Karpathy. It is curated in the Agentic Engineering vault on Burn 451, which covers engineering with ai coding agents.
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