Vibe Coding: Revolution, Shortcut, or Just a Fancy Buzzword?

Originally published at https://blog.akshatuniyal.com. Let me be honest with you. A few weeks ago, I was at a tech meetup and an old colleague walked up to me, eyes lit up, and said — “Bro, I’ve been vibe coding all week. Built an entire app. Zero lines of code written by me.” And I nodded along, the way you do when you don’t want to be the one who kills the mood at a party. But on my drive back, I couldn’t stop thinking — do we actually know what we’re talking about when we say “vibe coding”? Or have we collectively decided that saying it confidently is enough? Spoiler: it’s a bit of both. And that, my friend, is exactly why we need to talk about it. ” A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.” — Alexander Pope So… what actually is vibe coding? The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy — one of the original minds behind Tesla’s Autopilot and a co-founder of OpenAI — in early 2025. He described it as a way of coding where you essentially forget that code exists. You talk to an AI, describe