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The original "vibe coding" tweet

Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy (X) Free Beginner

This is the two sentence post that named the whole category you are deciding about, from an OpenAI co-founder. Read it to understand what these AI builders actually promise (describe it, forget the code exists) and, just as important, the caveat he attached: it is best for throwaway projects and demos. That framing is exactly why you try one for a prototype but stay careful about production.

• AI builders let you describe an app and get working code, no clicking required
• Even the person who coined it pitched it for quick throwaway builds, not critical systems
• The whole trend is barely a year old, so treat every workflow as still settling