Vibe coding

Plateau · emerged February 2025 · high April 2026 · -22% on the month before · 33 mentions on Trending in 14 days

Building software by describing it to a model and accepting what it writes, without reading the code closely. Named by Andrej Karpathy: Karpathy: "There's a new kind of coding I call vibe coding" (Feb 2, 2025). Also called Vibe-coding, Vibe coded, Vibe-coded apps.

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Signals

Signal	Value	Reads as
Hacker News stories, last 12 months1,053 stories	1,053 stories	Adoption
arXiv papers, last 12 months118 papers	118 papers	Adoption
Wikipedia views, August 202638,281, -56% on a year before	38,281, -56% on a year before	Decline
Against its high-42% from the high of April 2026	-42% from the high of April 2026	Decline
Product releases naming it1 since Sep 1, 2025	1 since Sep 1, 2025	Adoption
GitHub repositories54,242	54,242	Adoption

Trending terms

Term	Last day	Days	PeakPeak score
Vibe codingAI product2 days, last Sep 13 12 days ago1x number one	Sep 1312 days ago	2	42
CursorAI product5 days, last Sep 11 2 weeks ago	Sep 112 weeks ago	5	48
v0AI product3 days, last Sep 9 2 weeks ago	Sep 92 weeks ago	3	31

Companies

Name	Mentions
Cloudflare	1

Releases

1 release since Sep 1, 2025

Name	Date
Workers for Platforms - Workers for Platforms - Dashboard ImprovementsCloudflare · Dec 18, 2025 9 months ago	Dec 18, 20259 months ago

GitHub projects

54,242 repositories

Name	Created	Stars
shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practicefrom vibe coding to agentic engineering - practice makes claude perfect · Oct 31, 2025 10 months ago	Oct 31, 202510 months ago	66,294
2025Emma/vibe-coding-cnDec 17, 2025 9 months ago	Dec 17, 20259 months ago	22,992
liyupi/ai-guide程序员鱼皮的 AI 资源大全 + Vibe Coding 零基础教程，分享 OpenClaw 保姆级教程、大模型玩法（DeepSeek / GPT / Gemini / Claude / GLM）、最新 AI 资讯、Prompt 提示词大全、AI 知识百科（Agent Skill · Feb 13, 2025 1 year ago	Feb 13, 20251 year ago	20,453
datawhalechina/easy-vibe💻 vibe coding 101｜The first course for AI-native product builders. · Dec 28, 2025 9 months ago	Dec 28, 20259 months ago	19,540
tradecatlabs/vibe-coding-cnVibe Coding 从入门到精通教程｜AI 结对编程工作流｜Prompt、Skill、Workflow、上下文管理、codex实战指南 · Nov 23, 2025 10 months ago	Nov 23, 202510 months ago	16,374
coleam00/context-engineering-introContext engineering is the new vibe coding - it's the way to actually make AI coding assistants work. Claude Code is the best for this so th · Jul 2, 2025 1 year ago	Jul 2, 20251 year ago	13,878

Movement	Stage
Agentic codingCoding agents that read a repository, run commands and tests, and change code across files on their own.	Rising
AI agentsModels that plan and act in steps, calling tools and other services until a task is done.	Peak

History

Date	What changed
Sep 24, 2026	Tracking started: emerged February 2025, plateau, 3 other names recorded

Sources: Curve: Hacker News story titles, Wikipedia pageviews and arXiv papers by month, refreshed Sep 24, 2026. Related entities from the fru.dev sites' public APIs, matched by name. How stages work.