Vibe coding has broken free of tech circles to claim Collins Dictionary's Word of the Year 2025 — a choice that may prompt developers to ask: what could possibly go wrong?

Technically two words — yes we know — it’s the compound verb Collins says describes as the “use of artificial intelligence prompted by natural language to assist with the writing of computer code”.

"Tired of wrestling with syntax? Just go with the vibes. That’s the essence of vibe coding," Collins writes in a blog post published today.

We at Vulture Central do not stand reassured.

Collins attributes the moniker to Andrej Karpathy, a director of AI at Tesla and former OpenAI researcher. He said vibe coding is "fully giv[ing] in to the vibes, embrac[ing] exponentials, and forget[ting] that the code even exists." That m

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