It's been one of the biggest internet terms of the year, and now it's official: "vibe coding" is Collins Dictionary's word of 2025.

Beating runners up including clanker , aura farming , broligarchy , glazing , biohacking , and more, the term was coined in Feb. 2025 by former OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, who posted on X of a coding and software development mode that leans heavily on artificial intelligence, "where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists."

Essentially, vibe coders don't actually code, instead they can describe what they're wanting to create and hand the reins to AI – and OpenAI’s GPT-5 , Claude 4.1 Opus, and Grok 4 (Expert) , all function with differing efficacy when it comes to vibe coding. Writing

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