Vibe coding, AI-assisted development, and JavaScript fundamentals for vibe coders
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From vibe coder to real developer means keeping your shipping speed while backfilling the debugging and reasoning layer AI skipped. You are not "fake" because you used Copilot, you are unfinished in specific, fixable skills. The upgrade is targeted practice, not shame, not a reboot.
Vibe coding is a programming approach where a developer describes what they want to an AI assistant, Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude, GitHub Copilot, and the AI generates the implementation. The developer focuses on intent and direction, not syntax.
Vibe coding was named Collins Dictionary's Word of the Year 2025, the term is widely associated with Andrej Karpathy on Twitter/X in February 2025 (see Collins’ Word of the Year announcement and Karpathy’s post on X for primary sourcing).