Karpathy's Original Vibe Coding Quote: 'Fully Give In to the Vibes, Forget the Code Exists'

alexmacgregor__ · x · 2026-09-30

A look back at Andrej Karpathy's original coinage of "vibe coding": a new kind of coding where you "fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists." He credited LLMs like Cursor Composer with Sonnet getting "too good" for making it possible — the quote that became one of the most-referenced definitions in AI coding culture.

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