"Vibe coding", a form of software development that involves turning natural language into computer code through artificial intelligence (AI), has been named Collins Dictionary's Word of the Year for 2025.
As Collins' definition states, "vibe coding" is "the use of artificial intelligence prompted by natural language to assist with the writing of computer code." Or, as a blog post on the dictionary's website explains: "Basically, telling a machine what you want rather than painstakingly coding it yourself."
The term was coined by AI pioneer Andrej Karpathy, former director of AI at Tesla and founding engineer at OpenAI, to describe developing software with AI while being able to "forget that the code even exists."
"The selection of 'vibe coding' as Collins' Word of the Year perfectly captures how language is evolving alongside technology," Alex Beecroft, Managing Director of Collins, said in a press release.
"It signals a major shift in software development, where AI is making coding more accessible. The seamless integration of human creativity and machine intelligence demonstrates how natural language is fundamentally changing our interaction with computers."
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