... suggestion that one could simply give in to the vibes and let AI handle the heavy lifting felt almost insulting. If vibe coding was going to be the future, as some claimed, I was prepared to be that grumpy developer yelling get off my lawn! to all the AI code generators. But then came the twist: I found out who coined vibe coding. When I learned it was Andrej Karpathy yes, the AI guru and former director ... ... Middle Ground At first, I planted my flag firmly in the skeptic camp. I cracked my share of jokes about vibe coders hallucinating APIs and producing code that works only by cosmic coincidence. I secretly cheered on the grumpy