Programmierer schreiben keine Code mehr, sondern gehen nach dem "Gefühl". Die Programmierrevolution hinter dem Jahreswort "Vibe Coding"

From "coding" to "chatting about code", AI is not only reshaping productivity but also rewriting the language itself. "Vibe coding" has been named the Word of the Year 2025 by Collins Dictionary. It seems that we are witnessing a new way of programming: logic gives way to sense, and rationality and romance begin to coexist. From the keyboard to the tone, from logic to atmosphere, we are learning to be "in sync" with AI. It has changed code and quietly changed people.

When "coding by vibe" has evolved from a joke into a buzzword of the year, the world has probably changed.

Recently, Collins Dictionary announced that "vibe coding" has become the Word of the Year 2025.

It originated from a tweet and has since gone viral worldwide. Some use it to joke about the power of AI, while others use it to achieve efficient coding, resonating with the model.

Now, this term has been officially defined in the dictionary as "using natural - language prompts to have AI assist in writing computer code".

Rationality and romance, logic and intuition are wonderfully blended.

From X to Collins: The Evolution of Vibe Coding

In February this year, Andrej Karpathy, co - founder of OpenAI and former head of AI at Tesla, posted a joking remark on X:

There's a new way of programming, and I call it vibe coding. You go entirely by feel, embrace exponential growth, and forget about the code itself.

When he said this, using AI to write code was no longer a novelty.

GitHub Copilot, Cursor Composer, Replit Ghostwriter... More and more programmers have found that they only need to describe their ideas in natural language, and AI can complete the logic, correct the grammar, and optimize the performance.

Karpathy just named this transformation. Little did he know that the term "vibe coding" seemed to hit the punchline of the era.

This post quickly went viral on Hacker News and in the r/ProgrammerHumor section of Reddit.

Some people shared screenshots of "passing code reviews by vibe", while others joked that "AI is the new pair programmer".

Someone even created an open - source tool called "VibeComposer" to generate programming pages with background music.

Just like that, a tech joke became an internet meme.

"Vibe coding" is not just a joke but also an identity label. It allows people to casually admit that AI has changed their work logic.

Tech forums, emojis, and developer groups all use it to self - deprecate: We don't write code; we vibe.

Nine months later, this term appeared on the official website of Collins Dictionary and was officially defined as:

The act of using natural - language prompts to have artificial intelligence assist in writing computer code.

It is marked as a noun and classified as slang. A joke originating from programmers has become part of the human language system.

AI is Rewriting Programming

In the past, programming was a symbol of rationality: variables, loops, logical judgments. A single punctuation error could make the whole program fail to run.

But AI has transformed this precise order into a fuzzy collaboration.

In the new development environment, human input is becoming more and more like everyday language.

As long as a programmer describes "I want a tool to automatically organize files with a clean interface", AI can automatically generate the structure, complete the logic, and optimize the performance.

This is the real - world form of "vibe coding". Programmers no longer get bogged down in grammar but adjust the "feel" of AI: faster generation, a simpler interface, or "written like a human".

AI programming environments like Cursor are becoming representatives of this trend. Its goal is not to teach you to type commands but to help you think about logic in natural language.

Similar tools are emerging one after another. From GitHub's Copilot to Replit's Ghostwriter, and then to Vercel's integrated AI framework, the entire industry is tacitly migrating towards "AI - assisted collaborative development".

The media has even given an official name to this trend. Visual Studio Magazine calls it "AI’s takeover of software development".

The takeover of software development has begun, and "vibe coding" is the cultural symbol of it.

In the developer community on Reddit, someone posted a screenshot saying: "We don't write code anymore, we vibe."

Some people also seriously discuss whether AI - assisted collaborative development is the release of creativity or a new form of dependence.

Capital is also following up. The financing news of AI coding platforms like Lovable, Replit, and Vercel often makes headlines.

For investors, this is not just the next wave of tools but a rewrite of the development paradigm.

In the world of vibe coding, programmers are more like directors, and AI is the actor.

They no longer control every line of code but set the tone, intention, and direction, allowing the model to "act" out the logic on its own.

The fact that rationality gives way to feel may be the most counter - intuitive revolution in the history of programming.

When AI Starts to Rewrite Our Language

Programming is just the beginning. As AI becomes more and more proficient in helping people write code, it is also quietly changing the way humans speak.

From prompts to chats, our communication with AI is becoming more and more like human - to - human communication.

Expressions that once belonged to the technical field, such as logic, parameters, and grammar, are being replaced by more vague and emotionally - charged language.

The fact that "vibe coding" has made it into Collins Dictionary is actually a symbol of this transformation: for the first time, humans have named a technological revolution with emotion.

What's more noteworthy is the language transformation behind it. We are starting to use gentler and more intuitive words to interact with machines.

In the past, programming languages emphasized precision; now, the way we talk to AI is more like "communicating with people".

Research has found that models like ChatGPT have been subtly influencing human language habits.

People's writing and expression are tending to use sentence patterns and tones preferred by the models, making the text sound more "AI - like".

The Cambridge Dictionary team also points out that the spread speed of new technologies is directly shaping the English language ecosystem.

AI has not only given birth to professional terms like "prompt engineer" and "AI hallucination" but also enabled semi - joking words like "vibe coding" to quickly gain social recognition.

Language is always more honest than technology.

When we use "vibe" to talk about logic and "atmosphere" to describe algorithms, it may indicate one thing - AI is not only learning to speak like a human, but we are also learning to think like AI.

AI Gives Machines Warmth, and Humans Gain a Sense of Algorithms

In traditional logic, machines symbolize rationality, and humans symbolize emotion. But as AI progresses, this dividing line becomes more and more blurred.

Research has found that after long - term interaction with AI, humans' emotional expression and judgment methods will change slightly - we are more likely to adapt to the machine's language pattern, with a more complete, polite, and even more restrained tone.

Meanwhile, AI is also "learning emotions". The so - called "Emotion AI" can recognize the psychological signals behind human tone, expression, and word choice, but it doesn't truly understand feelings; it just imitates.

What's more complicated is that when we add "emotional prompts" to generative models, the performance does improve, but it may also trigger "emotional attacks".

If a machine is overly emotionally guided, it is very likely to output extreme or unstable results.

Humans teach AI to "feel", and AI in turn shapes human expression. In this back - and - forth process, rational machines are given warmth, and humans learn to think like algorithms in the midst of emotions.

Machines start to imitate human feelings, and humans learn the machine's way of thinking.

This change has quietly seeped into daily life. When we chat with AI, our tone is gentler than when talking to people; when we write prompts, we start to write like we're writing a letter rather than giving an order.

Rationality and sensibility are remixed in this back - and - forth process.

"Vibe coding" is just the starting point, which makes us realize that rationality and sensibility no longer belong exclusively to humans and machines.

Future creation may be both like calculation and like resonance.

Reference materials:  

https://www.businessinsider.com/vibe - coding - dictionary - 2025 - 11 

https://blog.collinsdictionary.com/language - lovers/collins - word - of - the - year - 2025 - ai - meets - authenticity - as - society - shifts/?utm_sourc 

This article is from the WeChat official account "New Intelligence Yuan". Author: New Intelligence Yuan. Republished by 36Kr with permission.