Not coding, but telling a chatbot what an app should do. It throws an error? Ask AI to fix it. Andrej Karpathy coined “vibe code” in early February 2025: “fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.” By month’s end, the New York Times had covered it. Backlash followed: vibecoded apps exposed user data and API keys. What about security, compliance, best practices, testing, maintainability?, the old guard asks. AI-assisted coding lives on, but the vibes are off. (A better term might be “situated software.“)

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