What is Vibe Coding? Why tech leaders from Google CEO Sundar Pichai to Zoho Founder Sridhar Vembu are talking about it

Nowadays, “vibe coding” is everywhere, and many are supporting the concept, which allows non-technical workers to pick up coding with no prior background and build real projects in their free time. The term was coined earlier this year by OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy and refers to users describing a project’s goals in simple, natural language to an AI-powered coding platform like Windsurf, OpenAI Codex, or Cursor, which then writes the code. In a way, vibe coding is opening the door for non-tech workers to enter the tech world without needing a degree.