The term "vibe coding" has been named the Collins Word of the Year for 2025, beating contenders like "clanker", "glaze" and "aura farming". Vibe coding refers to an emerging software development process that turns natural language into computer code using AI. The term, coined in February by Andrej Karpathy, former director of AI at Tesla and a founding engineer at OpenAI, essentially outlines how a person can now prioritise describing what they need to AI so it can generate code on their behalf,