Vibe Coding

Remember when we used to write code? Actual code. Line by line. Missed semicolon by missed semicolon. Debugging our own mistakes like masochists.

Those were simpler times. Also dumber times.

Then along came LLMs. We fed them our documentation, asked them to explain our own code back to us, and slowly realized they were better at it than we were.

Early in 2025 Andrej Karpathy wrote a tweet that casually defined our entire future:

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.

— excerpt from a tweet by Andrej Karpathy

At first we thought it was for prototypes. Weekend projects. One-offs. Then Anthropic dropped Claude Code and suddenly it was writing production code. Then agents started managing other agents. Now developers burn $100/hour on tokens and call it productivity.

The real trick isn’t getting them to write code — it’s pretending we still know what’s happening. LLMs democratized coding, made it accessible to everyone. Even your boss can ship code now.

So in a way we’re still debugging mistakes, they’re just no longer ours.