[simonw]

See https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383 for when it was coined by Andrei Karpathy.

I've written more about it here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/19/vibe-coding/ and here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/23/semantic-diffusion/

[viccis]

It is so hard to reconcile my view of Karpathy as a world class instructor who does great things like making you work out gradients via the chain rule even though you don't need to anymore with this version of Karpathy.

[BrawnyBadger53]

They're the same person. He's just a techno-optimist and interested in teaching.

[DidYaWipe]

Thanks for the reply.

But I really detest the ever-growing universe of unnecessarily obscure slang. It's not clever and not informative. Good slang is akin to a word that you can figure out from its Latin origins; it makes sense, might be clever, and you can figure it out if you think about it.

This is just douchey.