created 2025-03-11, & modified, =this.modified
If you go to dance parties you’ll hear about vibe. Bouncers will often restrict entry to preserve, or cultivate a type of “vibe” of the party. Other elements can be more direct, such as the music introducing a vibe but vibe seems like an emergent phenomenon, or something that is externally wrought from collective elements, or networks interacting.
The background music you hear in a store also just to carry a vibe.
Individual tracks in a playlists with the name “sleepy”.
Colloquially, it’s spoken.
With increased summarization, comes an increased reliance of vibes. They go hand in hand. A conversational prompt isn’t an explicit declaration, more than it is a statement of a vibe with the hope of a desired result (because if it could be stated explicitly, the prompt would not be needed to be performed).
What this then results, is vibes on vibes. Vibes interacting with vibes.
“Vibe Coding” also an unfortunate, modern programming paradigm where a programmer describes in a few sentences their desired program. Complete understanding of the inner workings of the code are not needed (full understanding of the stack is already not present, this is just another layer where on some level the mental tools to even interact with the inner instructions aren’t present.)
The concept refers to a coding approach that relies on AI tools (LLMs), allowing programmers to generate working code by providing natural language descriptions rather than manually writing it. Karpathy described his approach to vibe coding as interacting with AI in a passive manner, such as through voice commands, allowing the AI to handle implementation details. He characterized the process as relying on the AI’s capabilities without focusing on the underlying code.
A key part of the definition of vibe coding is that the user accepts code without full understanding.
Vibe Understand Etymology
1940 as short for vibraphone; attested from 1967 (vibes) as an abbreviated form of vibration in the 1960s slang sense of “instinctive feeling.”
Vibrato phone (vibrato is a “tremulous effect”).
According to Grieser, the linguistics professor, when “vibe” and “vibrations” first took off, the word was usually collocated with emotions – specifically “good” or “bad”. Using the Corpus of Contemporary American English – an archive of texts used to understand how English is evolving, spanning roughly a billion words, from the 1990s up until 2019 – Grieser found a slow shift to a more amorphous use of “the vibe” or “vibing”. “Things can be ‘a vibe’” and “the really recent move is ‘whole vibe’”, she said. A more recent dataset, of web-based newspapers and magazines from 2010 until 2021, showed “vibing” rising significantly in 2021. “I wasn’t able to find any sort of watershed that seems to have started that or a single spot,” Grieser said. “But we do get that big spike in 2021.”
While the use of “vibes” as a word might be recent, our obsession with intangible vibrations dates back to antiquity. Ancient Greek philosopher-scientists conceived the idea of “quintessence”, a “fifth element” that made the world work. Mystics and esoterics in the early 20th century claimed to be able to see “auras”: normally invisible fields of energy around people.