What Is Vibe Coding in 2026? Agents, Review Bots and Where It Breaks
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Vibe coding means describing what you want and letting AI write the code (Andrej Karpathy, X, 2025; Collins Word of the Year 2025). By September 2026 the tools run whole projects (Cursor Projects, September 10) and review their own pull requests (Cursor Security Review, September 23), but a human still checks the result. Reading code is still the skill.