Vibe coding
Building software by describing what you want and accepting what the AI produces, without reading the code closely.
What it tells you about a developer
Developers use the phrase about themselves with pride and about other people as criticism, so the word alone settles nothing. What was built that way, and whether anyone had to maintain it, carries the information.
The phrase was coined in 2025 and spread within weeks. Vibe coding means staying at the level of the description: ask, run it, ask again if it looks wrong, and never read the code line by line. It works well for prototypes, demos, and throwaway scripts. It goes badly for software other people depend on, because nobody on the team knows what the code does when it breaks.