'Vibe Coding' Named Word of the Year By Collins Dictionary (collinsdictionary.com) 36
Collins Dictionary has named "vibe coding" its 2025 word of the year -- a term coined by Andrej Karpathy for when a user makes an app or website by describing it to AI rather than writing programming code manually. The term, which is confusingly made up of two words, was "one of 10 words on a shortlist to reflect the mood, language and preoccupations of 2025," reports the BBC. From the report: By giving an AI tool a simple description such as "make me a program that schedules my weekly meals", people can use "vibe coding" to make basic apps without any previous programming knowledge. More complicated tools still require skill, but the practice has opened up creating digital platforms to non-coders. As many have discovered, it isn't perfect - with no guarantee the code will actually work or be free of bugs. Alex Beecroft, the Managing Director of Collins, said the term "perfectly captures how language is evolving alongside technology." Other words that made the list include "clanker," "aura farming," "broligarchy," "biohacking," and "coolcation." You can view the full list here.
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Also, a fail (Score:2)
It isn't a "word" it is a phrase. Before the age of "AI" and "vibe coding" editors used to know these things, but alas not anymore.
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It isn't a "word" it is a phrase. Before the age of "AI" and "vibe coding" editors used to know these things, but alas not anymore.
It's not a phrase, it's a compound word [merriam-webster.com], you flaccid shaft
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Keep sucking on it, compound shite.
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Keep sucking on it, compound shite.
HEY! you two - play nice - don't make me get up outa this chair!
Hmmm... (Score:3)
That's two words.
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Re: Hmmm... (Score:2)
Probably a sign of the Decline.
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The technical term is a lexical unit. Sometimes two words together mean some specific thing, most often with nouns. Sometimes the space disappears over time, sometimes it gets hyphenated, sometimes it just stays as two words that refer to some specific thing.
Basically, if it would appear in the dictionary, it can be word of the year, even if it's two or three words.
if only they had access to some sort of book (Score:4, Funny)
You know, if they had access to a book that tells you the meaning of the word "word".
In the tradition of Collins I have Two Words: (Score:4, Funny)
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Next year (Score:5, Funny)
Slop coding cleanup
Re: Next year (Score:2)
Is that the year desktop Linux will take off?
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I don't think there will be a year of desktop linux, because normal people will just rename it "the deck thing", or mint, given the massive consensus i see on "more normal spaces" like youtube.
not good (Score:1)
Re: not good (Score:5, Funny)
How do you feel about the term "vibecession"?
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How do you feel about the term "vibecession"?
Vibealicious!
Looks like another word gets redefined. When are we going to get to vibe physics? Like feelings over facts.
Vibecoding is a single word (Score:1)
thatwillbeall.
Worst words of the year (Score:2)
Fixed.
See! Vibe coding is real! (Score:2)
The dictionary says so!
Do we need AI vibrators? (Score:2, Funny)
Asking for a vibe coding friend.
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https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.we-vibe.com%2Fus%2F
It's confusing when terms are made up of two words (Score:3)
The term, which is confusingly made up of two words, was "one of 10 words on a shortlist to reflect the mood, language and preoccupations of 2025"
I wonder if the moron editor working this web site's night shift would be less confused by compound words if he spent less time shoving hot dogs and cream cheese up his ass, and more time studying shit they teach kids in elementary school?
Interesting word (Score:3)
I'm not used to one word having two capital letters as if they were two distinct words.
I did some "Vibe Coding" and got anAIscripted answer:
The dictionaries that named it (Cambridge and Collins) seem to have stretched the traditional definition of "word" to include phrases or compound terms. This isn't entirely unprecedented - dictionaries have occasionally selected multi-word phrases for "word of the year" when they capture a cultural moment (like "climate emergency" or "cancel culture" in previous years).
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I'm not used to one word having two capital letters as if they were two distinct words.
CamelCase! I thought all of us geeks knew about CamelCase. I guess the capitalizes letters looks like a two humped camel
No guarantee (Score:2)
As many have discovered, it isn't perfect - with no guarantee the code will actually work or be free of bugs.
So very unlike human generated code, which by contrast is always free of bugs, always perfectly implementing the spec, right out of the box, and with no QA needed!
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Rage-posting or rageposting? (Score:2)
Should compound words have a hyphen or just be jammed together?
Also wondering if "six seven" is a compound word?
Also, if a word or a compound word or a meme has no meaning, should it be defined in the dictionary?
Can a word without meaning be defined?
Aren't "without meaning" and "definition" antonyms?
Will this thread will only be complete when @BlueTrane replies, in the form of a question?
Is BlueTrane a play on Coltrane?
Who's gonna tell em? (Score:2)
I can't be bothered, so hopefully one or more of y'all will take it upon yourselves.
Who coined the term? (Score:2)
Who coined the term? Did they use AI to come up with this word to describe this kind of coding?
collins dictionary (Score:2)
Collins Dictionary named least known dictionary of the year.