... term vibe coding , I had a visceral reaction namely, a full-body cringe. As a developer who takes pride in actually understanding my code, the phrase sounded like a bad joke. Coding by vibe? What does that even mean light some incense, play lo-fi beats, and let the code write itself? In my mind, AI coding assistants were meant to assist me (suggest a snippet here, autocomplete a line there), not replace the real work. The idea of surrendering ... ... vibe coding. When I learned it was Andrej Karpathy yes, the AI guru and former director of AI at Tesla I did a double take. Karpathy is known for deep technical expertise and meticulous work, not throwing buzzwords around lightly