vibe-coding-collins-word-of-year-2025

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'Vibe coding' was named Collins Dictionary Word of the Year in November 2025, referring to an AI-assisted software development workflow driven by iterative conversational prompting.

Summary

A major dictionary picking "vibe coding" as its 2025 Word of the Year is a cultural signal that conversation-driven, AI-assisted software development has moved from a niche trick into a widely recognized way of working. It anchors a milestone worth tracking: this workflow is now mainstream enough to shape everyday vocabulary, which bears on how durable and influential the practice actually is.