---
type: Glossary Term
title: Vibe Coding
description: A term coined by Andrej Karpathy in February 2025 for AI-assisted software development where developers focus on the vision and AI writes the code. Collins Word
resource: "https://www.contextstudios.ai/glossary/vibe-coding"
category: engineering
language: en
timestamp: "2026-02-05T22:08:43.874Z"
---

# Vibe Coding

A term coined by Andrej Karpathy in February 2025 for AI-assisted software development where developers focus on the vision and AI writes the code. Collins Word of the Year 2025.

## Business Value

Democratizes software development and enables faster prototypes, but still requires code review for production-ready systems.

## Context Studios Perspective

Vibe Coding is powerful for prototyping, but we always combine it with human code review for enterprise quality.