Vibe Coding: Fad, Future or Folly? 

The software development landscape is perpetually shifting, and early 2025 brought a new tremor: vibe coding. Coined by OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy in February, he used the term to describe an experiment where he built a small project without personally writing a single line of code — or even touching a keyboard.

Karpathy dictated application requirements for an “amusing throwaway weekend project” to superwhisper, an AI voice transcriber. These instructions were then fed into Cursor Chat, an AI-powered multifile code editor, which…