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A tweet from Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) discussing a concept he calls "vibe coding," where he relies heavily on AI-assisted coding tools. He describes how he barely types, often giving vague or lazy instructions, accepting all changes without reviewing diffs, and copy-pasting error messages for fixes. He acknowledges that as the codebase grows, it becomes harder to understand but works well for one-offs. Full transcript: Andrej Karpathy @karpathy There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding – I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works. 0:17 · 03 Feb 25 · 4.4M Views