vibe code
verb
variants
or less commonly vibecode
or vibe-code
vibe coded also vibecoded or vibe-coded; vibe coding also vibecoding or vibe-coding; vibe codes also vibecodes or vibe-codes
: to use an artificial intelligence system to generate computer code (see code entry 1 sense 5) in a given programming language : to perform vibe coding
One organizer showed participants how to vibe code a pet website …—
Shubhangi Goel
Shubhangi Goel… he vibe-coded a news aggregator that pulls updates from his preferred sources.—Melia Russell
Melia RussellOthers argued that telling kids to "vibe code" ignored the need for broader education and critical thinking skills.—Ananya Gairola
Ananya GairolaExamples of vibe code in a Sentence
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Andrej Karpathy gave vibe coding its name in February 2025.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
Any time a user of ChatGPT, Claude or another AI service builds a spreadsheet, generates an image or vibe codes an app through text prompts, a certain number of tokens are required to complete the task.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 10 June 2026
Knowing how to prompt, vibe code, and work alongside AI agents have increasingly become an expectation—but AMD CEO Lisa Su says knowing how to use the tools isn’t enough.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 29 May 2026
Jain compares this transition to the way software development with AI has evolved, with companies like Anthropic moving from simple vibe coding to agentic workflows.
—Janko Roettgers, The Verge, 21 May 2026
This powers two different ways of finding information with vibe coding that are similar but technically distinct.
—ArsTechnica, 20 May 2026
Which is where the fantasy of vibe coding captured my attention.
—Chris Colin, Wired News, 18 May 2026
Computer science was among the fastest-growing majors and words like vibe coding and tokenmaxxing hadn’t even entered the lexicon.
—Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 15 May 2026
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Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
Any time a user of ChatGPT, Claude or another AI service builds a spreadsheet, generates an image or vibe codes an app through text prompts, a certain number of tokens are required to complete the task.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 10 June 2026
Knowing how to prompt, vibe code, and work alongside AI agents have increasingly become an expectation—but AMD CEO Lisa Su says knowing how to use the tools isn’t enough.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 29 May 2026
Jain compares this transition to the way software development with AI has evolved, with companies like Anthropic moving from simple vibe coding to agentic workflows.
—Janko Roettgers, The Verge, 21 May 2026
This powers two different ways of finding information with vibe coding that are similar but technically distinct.
—ArsTechnica, 20 May 2026
Which is where the fantasy of vibe coding captured my attention.
—Chris Colin, Wired News, 18 May 2026
Computer science was among the fastest-growing majors and words like vibe coding and tokenmaxxing hadn’t even entered the lexicon.
—Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 15 May 2026
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“Vibe code.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vibe%20code. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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