Vibe Coding emerged as a viral tech term in late 2024 and early 2025, largely popularized within the AI engineering community on platforms like X (formerly Twitter). It describes a new paradigm of software development where programmers—and often non-programmers—use Large Language Models (LLMs) and agentic tools like Cursor or Replit to build complex applications primarily through natural language prompting and 'vibes' rather than manual syntax. The meme typically pokes fun at the shift from traditional, rigorous debugging to a more intuitive, trial-and-error process where the developer simply asks the AI to 'make it better' or 'fix the vibes.' It captures both the excitement of rapid prototyping and the humorous reality of shipping code that the developer might not fully understand, signaling a cultural shift in how the world perceives programming in the age of generative AI.