Technology

Barry Buck, SauceCode

“It's not really coding – I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy-paste stuff, and it mostly works,” says Andrej Karpathy's 2024 post on X, where he first named this phenomenon: vibe coding. “You fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists,” wrote the OpenAI co-founder.

Vibe coding requires no programming experience. You tell the platform what you want in plain language, such as "make a calculator app”, and it writes the software. Powered by the same large language models that produce written articles and images in seconds, all you need is an idea for an app, a little patience, and a coding platform. These range from casual to full-stack, with all the big names – Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, DeepSeek – capable of producing at least basic software code. But does this matter if you are not a software developer? Yes. Does a spreadsheet only matter to an accountant?