Every dictionary going has a word of the year now, and if you want an app to keep track of them all but don't have any programming skills, Collins' selection for 2025 might help: "Vibe Coding."

Tired of wrestling with syntax? Just go with the vibes. That's the essence of vibe coding, Collins' Word of the Year 2025, a term that captures something fundamental about our evolving relationship with technology. Coined by AI pioneer Andrej Karpathy, vibe coding refers to the use of artificial intelligence prompted by natural language to write computer code. Basically, telling a machine what you want rather than painstakingly coding it yourself. It's programming by vibes, not variables. While tech experts debate whether it's revolutionary or reckless, the term has resonated far beyond Silicon Val

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