The man who coined the term 'vibe coding' says code written by AI can still be 'awkward' and 'gross'
OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy said that code written by AI agents can still be messy and needs human supervision.
TL;DR
- Andrej Karpathy described AI-written code as 'bloaty,' 'brittle,' and 'gross,' necessitating human oversight.
- He coined the term 'vibe coding' to describe a highly AI-assisted development style where builders barely touch the code.
- Collins Dictionary named 'vibe coding' its 2025 word of the year.
- While AI can handle much of the 'under the hood' work, humans are still needed for high-level decisions and oversight.
- Karpathy believes AI can write clean code if model training focuses on it, but currently, labs haven't prioritized this.
- The 'vibe coding' trend has disrupted tech hiring and valuations of startups like Lovable, Cursor, and Replit.
- Professional developers caution against overreliance due to messy and untested code, and recent security stumbles are a concern.
- The Swedish platform Lovable recently experienced a security error where access to chats on public projects was accidentally re-enabled.