Karpathy Coins 'Vibe Coding': Give In to the Vibes, Forget the Code Exists

alexmacgregor__ · x · 2026-09-30

Andrej Karpathy's famous quote that started it all: "There's a new kind of coding I call 'vibe coding', where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good." The passage became the origin of the now-ubiquitous term "vibe coding".

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