The beginner's guide to vibe coding

Getty Images It's 2026. You open Instagram reels, and instead of the cat videos you went looking for, you're hit in the face with "I built an app in four hours with Claude Code!" It feels like everyone — from kids to grandmas — is vibe coding now. Vibe coding, a phrase coined by OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy last year, refers to using plain English to get AI to write code and build apps. From tech CEOs flexing how much of their company's code is written by AI — Anthropic and Google ...