Collins Dictionary has declared “vibe coding" to be the word of the year for 2025. This term captures the nexus between artificial intelligence and human creativity in a rapidly evolving language and technical environment. The lexicographers at Collins chose the word “vibe coding" from a robust shortlist of novel and developing terms. They keep an eye on the Collins Corpus, a 24-billion-word database that compiles the annual list of new and interesting words from a variety of media sources, including social media.

Andrej Karpathy, a former AI director at Tesla and founding engineer at OpenAI, first used the term to refer to the process of using AI to generate software code from natural-language prompts instead of writing code line by line. Collins claims that as human language and machine

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