AI bomb hits IT world: Vibe coding exploding as the new hype

  
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It caused an uproar when one of the prominent OpenAI founders, later Tesla director Andrej Karpathy, now at Eureka Labs, introduced a new and simpler way to code in February last year on the social media X (formerly Twitter).

A coding task that might otherwise have been estimated to take, for example, 20 hours, could now suddenly be handled and completed in perhaps just an hour to an hour and a half with vibe-coding.

Vibe-coding is, in short, about how you can create a website, app, or webshop without any coding knowledge, simply by prompting creatively and purposefully.

You describe what you want in prompts, and AI takes care of the process for you. Instead of writing hundreds of thousands of lines of code, you tell an AI programming tool what you want to create with your common words. 

Paradigm shift

"There's a new form of coding that I call vibe-coding, where you give in completely to your spontaneous whims, vibes, and forget that coding even exists," Andrej Karpathy announced last winter.

He had just uncovered and created a veritable paradigm shift in app development, where non-techies can now forget all about technical implementation details, skip the HTML codes, and focus on their own whims and ideas.

Vibe coding is about how you leave technical codes and commands to AI language models and build your apps in natural language. Instead of HTML codes, you´ll just describe what you want your app to do.                                            Photos: StockCake

Now, a year later, Karpathy admits that, for the first time in his career, he feels left behind as a programmer. He attributes this to the rapid advancement of AI tools, which are becoming more powerful every day, and to the lack of clear guidance on how to use them effectively.

"One reason for this uncertainty is that AI tools do not always give the same result for the same input. Unlike traditional software, AI systems can behave differently every time, which makes them harder to understand and control."

Groundbreaking

In the wake of Andrej Karpathy's groundbreaking launch of the new vibe-coding, the IT industry - still somewhat confused and awed by the innovation - has not hesitated to proclaim 2025 as "The year that changed coding forever".

A stream of new AI tools to communicate your vibe-coding is pouring into the already abundant market, dominated by tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable, Replit, Bolt.new, Hostinger Horizons, Zapier Agents, and others.

To get started experimenting with vibe-coding, you need an AI editor - for example Lovable.dev. You start by describing the final result as you envision it in your mind.

To get started experimenting with vibe-coding, you need an AI-based editor - for example, the successful Swedish coding skyrocket Lovable.dev.

Lovable is built to understand your vision rather than your code, and since the tool is a cloud-based platform, you don't need to install any software on your computer.

Get started

Start by explaining what you want to build - describe the finished result you have in mind. Ask the AI ​​to create a first version and run the code to see if it works.

If a colour doesn´t match, or a button won´t work, you write: "Make it more blue" or "The button doesn't work when I press it, fix it."

When something doesn't work along the way, immediately copy the error into the chat and write: "Fix this." That's exactly the essence of vibe-coding: You troubleshoot and adjust by communicating.

Thanks to Karpathy's vibe-code bomb last winter, Swedes Fabian Hedin and Anton Osika (right) did manage to develop their AI company Lovable into Europe's fastest- growing entrepreneurial company ever, in less than a year.               (Photo: Lovable)

The Swedish AI company Lovable has also managed to capitalise on Andrej Karpathy's vibe-coding bomb last winter by developing it into Europe's fastest-growing entrepreneurial company, ever in terms of revenue during 2025.

Lovable, with headquarters in Stockholm and newly opened offices in Boston and San Francisco, had a turnover of just under USD 215 million in its breakthrough year of 2025 and was valued at no less than USD 7 billion shortly before Christmas.  ● 

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Replit.com: What is vibe coding
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