Elin Nilsson

3 weeks ago | newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | Gergely Orosz |Elin Nilsson

The term “vibe coding” is relatively new and has been gaining traction recently, since computer scientist Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI cofounder and Tesla’s former director of AI, used it in a now widely-referenced tweet which helpfully provided a definition. There were a few earlier references to “vibe coding”, but Andrej’s post seems to have propelled it into wider usage. Today, terms like “I vibe coded this app” can be found in developers’ lingo, especially frontend-focused devs.