Vibe coding was coined less than a year ago:

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383

furyofantares 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I was vibe coding in November 2024, before the term was coined. I think that is about as early as anyone was doing it, so 1.25 years ago. Cursor added its "agentic" mode around then, I think, but before that there was just "accept all" without looking at changes repeatedly.

I shipped a small game that way (https://love-15.com/) -- one that I've wished to make for a long time but wouldn't have been worth building other wise. It's tiny, really, but very niche -- despite being tiny, I hit brick walls multiple times vibing it, and had to take a few brief breaks from vibing to get it unstuck.

Claude Code was a step change after that, along with model upgrades, about 9 months ago. That size project has been doable as a vibe coded project since then without hitting brick walls.

All this to say I really doubt most claims about having been vibe coding for more than 9-15 months.

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kridsdale1 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

To a describe a thing people had been doing since LLMs became available.

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JimDabell 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

No. That’s why he called it “a new kind of coding”.

	▲	honeycrispy 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"New" doesn't mean it was invented that morning. Things that are a few years old can still be considered "new".

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fragmede 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

When LLMs first came out, they weren't very good at it, which makes all the difference. Sometimes the thing that's really good at something gets a different name. Chef vs cook, driver vs chauffeur, painter vs artist, programmer vs software developer, etc.

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wavemode 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, I laughed when I saw the headline.

Now I expect to start seeing job postings asking for "3 years of experience vibe coding"