Does ‘vibe coding’ make everyone a programmer?

That’s the promise, misleading for some, of “vibe coding,” the latest Silicon Valley catchphrase for an advance in generative AI that some say makes computer programming as simple as chatting online.

“You fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists,” OpenAI cofounder and former Tesla employee Andrej Karpathy described in early February, in a message posted on X (formerly Twitter), using the term for the first time.

“I’m building a…