AI-inspired word joins ‘biohacking’, ‘Henry’ and ‘broligarchy’ on tech-heavy 2025 list
“Vibe coding”, an emerging software development that turns natural language into computer code using artificial intelligence, has been named Collins dictionary’s word of the year for 2025.
Lexicographers at Collins monitor the 24bn-word Collins Corpus, which draws from a range of media sources, including social media, to create the annual list of new and notable words that reflect our ever-evolving language.
They chose vibe coding as word of the year after observing a huge increase in usage since its first appearance in February.
The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy, the former director of AI at Tesla and a founding engineer at OpenAI, to describe how artificial intelligence can enable someone to create a new app while being able to “forget that the code even exists”.
