[Ads-l] 'Vibe coding' beats 'clanker' to be Collins dictionary's word of the year

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Website: Guardian
Article: 'Vibe coding' beats 'clanker' to be Collins dictionary's word
of the year
Date: 6 Nov 2025

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/06/vibe-coding-collins-dictionary-word-of-the-year-2025

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AI-inspired word joins ‘biohacking’, ‘Henry’ and ‘broligarchy’ on
tech-heavy 2025 list

“Vibe coding”, an emerging software development that turns natural
language into computer code using artificial intelligence, has been
named Collins dictionary’s word of the year for 2025.

Lexicographers at Collins monitor the 24bn-word Collins Corpus, which
draws from a range of media sources, including social media, to create
the annual list of new and notable words that reflect our
ever-evolving language.

They chose vibe coding as word of the year after observing a huge
increase in usage since its first appearance in February.

The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy, the former director of AI at
Tesla and a founding engineer at OpenAI, to describe how artificial
intelligence can enable someone to create a new app while being able
to “forget that the code even exists”.
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