‘Vibe coding,’ coined by AI expert Andrej Karpathy to describe creating software through natural language, was named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year 2025. The term highlights AI’s accessibility and impact, alongside trending words like glaze, aura farming, and biohacking

London: Vibe coding, or an emerging software development that turns natural language into computer code using AI, was named as the Word of the Year by ‘Collins Dictionary’ in a nod to the proliferation and accessibility of artificial intelligence (AI) in our daily lives.

The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy, former director of AI at Tesla and a founding engineer at OpenAI, to describe how AI can enable someone to create a new app while being able to “forget that the code even exists”.

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