When AI gives the right vibes

Imagine giving voice prompts to your computer in plain English – and getting an app or software built in just a few minutes. This scenario is fast becoming a reality thanks to “vibe coding”, the latest buzzword in tech circles that has caught the imagination of software developers in the Silicon Valley in San Francisco Bay Area of California, as well as in Bengaluru. First coined by OpenAI’s cofounder Andrej Karpathy in February this year, vibe coding is a new AI-driven approach to software making that promises to accelerate projects and lower the barriers to creating software.