Vibe Coding: When Everyone's A Developer, Who Secures The Code?
Security Week, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
As AI makes software development accessible to all, security teams face a new challenge: protecting applications built by non-developers at unprecedented speed and scale.
Just as the smart phone made everyone a digital photographer, vibe coding will make everyone a software developer and will change the software development industry forever.
Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI and former AI leader at Tesla, introduced the term 'vibe coding' in a February 2, 2025, 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.' He was primarily expressing an emotional response to using AI to automate a specific process; but the term took and is now universally used as the general label for AI-generated or assisted programming.