Collins Dictionary Names 'Vibe Coding' Word of the Year as AI Programming Takes Center Stage
Summary
Collins Dictionary crowns 'vibe coding' as Word of the Year, recognizing the revolutionary practice of creating computer programs by simply describing them to AI instead of manually writing code, making app development accessible to non-programmers.
Key Points
- Collins Dictionary names 'vibe coding' as word of the year, referring to creating computer programs by describing them to AI rather than writing code manually
- The term was coined by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy in February and allows non-programmers to make basic apps through simple descriptions to AI tools
- Other shortlisted words include 'clankers' (robots that went viral on TikTok), 'broligarchy' (describing tech company owners' political influence), and 'aura farming' (doing things to look cool on camera)