AI Coding Limitations Exposed as ‘Vibe Coding’ Pioneer Returns to Hand-Written Code
The inventor of “vibe coding” has returned to hand-written code for his latest open source project, admitting AI tools “didn’t work well enough.” This development comes as research indicates AI coding assistance may actually slow developers down and require significant error correction time.
Vibe Coding Pioneer Returns to Traditional Methods
OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy, who popularized the term “vibe coding” to describe delegating programming tasks to AI assistants, has reportedly written his latest project entirely by hand. According to reports, Karpathy’s new open source model called nanochat contains approximately 8,000 lines of hand-written code despite his previous advocacy for AI-assisted programming approaches.