High-Quality Vibe Coding

"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." — Andrej Karpathy, February 2025

Karpathy coined the term for throwaway weekend projects. One year later he declared it passe — LLM agents had become the default professional workflow. He now calls it agentic engineering: you orchestrate agents who write code while you provide oversight, architecture, and judgment.

The problem: most people still vibe code the original way — Accept All, ignore diffs, copy-paste errors back in, hope for the best. The result is garbage. Studies show AI co-authored code has 2.74x higher security vulnerability rates, 75% more misconfigurations, and experienced developers are 19% slower when they use AI tools without discipline (while believing they are 24% faster).

This skill is about the discipline layer that makes vibe coding produce production-quality output. You are the architect. The AI is the builder.