alt Hacker NewsI'm impressed that this person has been vibecoding longer than vibecoding has been a thing. A real trailblazer!
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rpigab • yesterday at 3:08 PM
It seems the term has been introduced by Andrej Karpathy in February 2025, so yes, but very often, people say "vibe coding" when they mean "heavily (or totally) LLM-assisted coding", which is not synonymous, but sounds better to them.
GitHub copilot was released in 2021, and Cursor was released around October 2023[0].
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37888477