If you've ever wanted to create your own computer program but never learnt how to code, you might try vibe coding ‘vibe coding’, a software development that turns natural language into computer code using ai, has been named collins’ word of the year 2025. Vibe coding named word of 2025 collins english dictionary, a british publication first printed in 1979, has named vibe coding the word of the year. Vibe coding, a word that essentially means using artificial intelligence (ai) to tell a machine what you want instead of coding it yourself, was on thursday named the collins word of the year 2025. Vibe coding has broken free of tech circles to claim collins dictionary's word of the year 2025 — a choice that may prompt developers to ask What could possibly go wrong
Technically two words — yes we know — it’s the compound verb collins says describes as the “use of artificial.
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