Vibe Coding

What is Vibe Coding?

Vibe coding is a new approach to programming where you describe what you want in natural language and let AI build it for you. Instead of writing every line of code yourself, you guide the AI with prompts and let it handle the implementation.

The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy in this tweet:

Andrej Karpathy

@karpathy

Link to tweet

There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper

To vibe code effectively, you need the right tools. Here are the best AI-powered editors and CLIs available today.

Choosing the Best Model

The AI model you use matters just as much as the tool. You can find the latest rankings of AI models for web development on the LM Arena Web Development Leaderboard.

That said, Claude models by Anthropic consistently rank at the top for coding tasks. If you want the best results for vibe coding, Claude is usually the way to go.

My Setup

I personally use the Claude Code VSCode Extension for my vibe coding workflow. It integrates Claude directly into VSCode with agentic capabilities.

To help gather context for AI assistants, I also built the Code Collector extension. It automatically collects files based on import dependencies, making it easy to provide your codebase context to any AI assistant.

AI Editors

These editors have AI deeply integrated into the coding experience, allowing you to chat with AI, generate code, and get intelligent completions.

AI CLIs

Command-line tools that let you vibe code directly from your terminal. These are great for quick tasks, automation, and working in any editor you prefer.