Viberpsychosis Glossary
// The Actual Jargon
Vibe Coding
// What it actually means
Building software by describing what you want to an AI model in plain language and accepting the code it writes, often without reading it closely. Andrej Karpathy coined the term in February 2025, describing it as giving in to the vibes and forgetting the code even exists.
// The diagnosis
The condition. Also the activity. Also, increasingly, the personality. It began as forgetting the code exists. It ends with forty repos, three subscriptions and a waitlist nobody is on. See: every page on this site.