Earlier this year, former OpenAI exec Andrej Karpathy coined a new term — “vibe coding” — for using artificial intelligence to rapidly develop software using natural language prompts.

But the approach comes with some glaring shortcomings that have gradually come to light, from major cybersecurity problems leading to mass leaking of sensitive personal information to rampant hallucinations that turn vibe-coded projects into a buggy mess that has to be painstakingly fixed by human programmers.

Even Karpathy himself has seemingly fallen out of love with his own creation. His latest project, dubbed Nanochat, is a “minimal, from scratch” interface that strips down a ChatGPT-like experience to its very basics.

“You boot up a cloud [graphics processing unit] box, run a single script and in as l

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