This is the new keyword that you will find almost everywhere, from Post LinkedIn to the description of post in a job offer. THE Vibe Coding is one of the emerging trends of 2025 in software development. Popularized by Andrej Karpathy, co -founder of Openai and former head of AI in Tesla, this term describes a practice which consists in leaving an artificial intelligence generate the entire code from instructions in natural language, without rereading or human correction.
Andrej Karpathy presented the approach in February 2025, explaining that it was a question of “giving oneself completely to the vibes” and “to forget that the code exists”. Concretely, the developer describes his project to a language model, tests the result and requires adjustments. The code is not reread or modified, but evaluated only by execution, like one of its prototypes, Menugen.
Media coverage was immediate. Journalist Kevin Roose, of New York Timestested the method to create small personal applications, such as a tool that analyzes the content of a fridge to suggest meals. These “software for one” show the accessibility of practice, but also its limits, unstable results, frequent deserrers, and in some cases, unexpected behavior, such as the generation of false opinions on an e-commerce site.
If supporters see it as a revolution by making software creation accessible to non -technical profiles, criticisms emphasize, on the contrary, the lack of responsibility, the difficulty of maintaining a product code without human supervision and the safety risks linked to this total delegation.
The keyword returned Illico Presto in the Merriam-Webster dictionary in March, and scored “Vibe Coding” in its section “Slang & Trending”. The Vibe Coding asks many questions, what place will developers remain in the value chain?
Remains that beyond the fashion effect, the Vibe Coding opens up a new perspective for software development by making creation more intuitive and accessible. The challenge is not to replace the developers, also called to integrate AI into their practices, but to support an evolution where the automatically generated code raises questions of reliability, maintenance and legal responsibility, as many challenges that will condition its future.
Jargonator, a few more words:
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Vibe Coding : development technique where the code is entirely generated by an LLM from instructions in natural language, without human rereading.
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Software for one : Personal micro-appliance generated by AI, designed to meet an individual need rather than a market logic.
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Assisted Assisted IA programming : Method where AI complete or suggests code, but remains supervised and corrected by a human developer.
