2025-11-09T20:15:17Z
- “Vibe coding” is Collins' word of the year for 2025.
- The Collins Dictionary classifies this word as a noun, not a verb.
- The term was originally coined by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy in February.
AI is changing everything, including the English vocabulary.
Andrey Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI and former director of artificial intelligence at Tesla: coined the term “vibe coding” in a post on X in February. Nine months later, it is an official word in the dictionary.
“There is a new kind of encoding that I call ‘vibration encoding,’ where you completely give in to the vibrations, accept the exponent, and forget that the code even exists,” Karpathy wrote.
“This is possible because LLM programs (like Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are becoming too good,” he added.
Since then, vibration coding has become not only a good word in technical circles, but also legitimate skill who can earn significant salaries.
Collins Dictionary, a dictionary published by Harper Collins with a history of more than 200 years, this week named vibe-coding its word of 2025.
Collins classifies the word as a noun and a slang term and defines it as “the use of artificial intelligence, prompted by natural language, to assist in writing computer code.”
Over the past year, Vibe coding has become standard for experienced and novice programmers who approach their work the same way, whether it's creating new applications or testing concepts in companies.
Companies creating vibration encoding platforms have also won significant funding rounds from some of Silicon Valley's biggest investors.
Founded in 2023, Lovable announced in July it had raised $200 million in Series A funding at a $1.8 billion valuation, led by Accel. In September, Relit announced a $250 million funding round at a $3 billion valuation led by Prysm Capital. That same month, Vercel also announced a $300 million investment round at a $9.3 billion valuation, also led by Accel.
