Vibe-coding is now an official word in the dictionary (www.businessinsider.com)

Collins Dictionary named "vibe-coding" its 2025 word of the year — a slang noun originally coined by OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy in February to describe a style of programming where developers "give in to the vibes" and use natural-language prompts to let large language models (LLMs) write code. Collins defines the term as "the use of artificial intelligence prompted by natural language to assist with the writing of computer code," and classifies it as a noun, signaling the practice's cultural legitimation rather than just casual slang. The choice reflects how LLM-driven workflows (Karpathy cited tools like Cursor Composer with Sonnet) have shifted software development: prompt engineering, model-assisted scaffolding, rapid prototyping and even production coding are now standard skills for both novices and senior engineers. That shift has real market consequences — startups building "vibe-coding" platforms have pulled in large venture rounds (e.g., Lovable $200M Series A at $1.8B, Replit $250M at $3B, Vercel $300M at $9.3B) — and employers are valuing these abilities with higher salaries. Technically, the trend emphasizes reliance on model quality, prompt design, and validation/testing workflows, raising new priorities around robustness, auditing, and developer tooling as AI becomes a core part of the software lifecycle.