18 Months After Karpathy's "Vibe Coding", Hand-Writing Code Feels Insane
Yuchenj_UW · x · 2026-08-13
The author reflects on the dramatic shift in developer habits since Andrej Karpathy coined vibe coding 18 months ago.
Initially mocked by many engineers as unsustainable, the practice quickly took over. Developers went from pasting code into ChatGPT, to relying on Claude, and now to running 10 parallel coding agents simultaneously. The author notes that hand-writing code from scratch now feels deeply counterintuitive, marveling at how incredibly fast this paradigm shift occurred.
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