Overview

• Google CEO Sundar Pichai demonstrated building a custom webpage at Bloomberg Tech by prompting Cursor and Replit, calling the process “vibe coding”
• OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy coined the term in February to describe AI-driven code generation from simple human descriptions
• Amazon is in talks to roll out the AI coding tool Cursor to employees, reflecting growing corporate investment in AI-assisted development
• Non-technical users have quickly assembled functional apps—like a dog ID tool built in two months—underscoring the democratization of software creation
• Industry leaders say vibe coding can free engineers for creative work but warn that overreliance may compromise code security and core programming skills