While not as famous as the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), The Collins Dictionary has been naming their word of the year since 2013. This year they have chosen Vibe coding as the 2025 Word of the Year.
‘Vibe coding’, as defined by defined Collins Dictionary is ‘characterized by a confident, independent, and hedonistic attitude’. I The term was popularised by Andrej Karpathy, former Director of AI at Tesla and founding engineer at OpenAI, to describe how AI enables creative output while he could “forget that the code even exists”.
The Collins Dictionary was first published in 1824 and now contains over 4.5 billion words.
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