What Is Vibe Coding — And Why Every Engineer Must Care (2025)
In February 2025, Andrej Karpathy posted a tweet that most engineers scrolled past: “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… I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy-paste stuff.” Most senior engineers read it and moved on. “A prototyping trick. Nothing serious.” They were wrong. Fifteen months later, 63% of users of AI coding tools are non-technical. CEOs are building internal systems with Claude prompts. PMs are replacing Excel with automated dashboards. BAs are creating workflow automation without touching a codebase. And critically — they are shipping those things to production. ...