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Andrej Karpathy and vibe coding
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- 0:00One throw-away tweet gave a name to the
- 0:02way millions of people now build
- 0:03software.
- 0:04>> [music]
- 0:04>> Andrej Karpathy was a founding member of
- 0:06OpenAI and led AI at Tesla.
- 0:09On February 2nd, [music] 2025, he
- 0:11posted, "There's a new kind of coding I
- 0:13call vibe coding, [music] where you
- 0:14fully give in to the vibes, embrace
- 0:16exponentials, and forget that the code
- 0:18even exists."
- 0:20He called it a shower of thoughts.
- 0:22Within weeks, founders were describing
- 0:24apps in plain English [music] and let AI
- 0:25write the code.
- 0:27Whole companies grew around the idea.
- 0:29People who had never written a line of
- 0:30code shipped real [music] products.
- 0:33In November, Collins Dictionary named
- 0:34vibe coding its word of the year.
- 0:37A year [music] later, he admitted he
- 0:38still can't predict which tweets will
- 0:39take off.
- 0:41This channel exists [music] because of
- 0:42that tweet.
- 0:44Follow Vibe Economies for more.
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