Vibe coding was only invented a year ago.

You still have time to learn:

Andrej Karpathy invented the term vibe coding 365 days ago. It’s still new. It’s easy to feel like you’re way behind.

Here’s everything you need to catch up and still be ahead of 99% of people:

1. Understand the trend

Vibe coding is all about coding via natural language: chats with an LLM. The “vibes” come from it not really being a deep software engineer-like process where you deeply read or understand the code being generated. Both engineers and non-engineers can vibe code.

2. Understand the tools

The main tool people vibe code with these days is Claude Code with Opus-4.5. Andrej Karpathy, who invented vibe coding, says that model “passed some threshold” where agentic coding became really powerful in December 2025. But there’s also ChatGPT Codex, Google Antigravity, Windsurf, and Cursor.

3. Play with the best tool

Claude code is not as scary as it sounds, even though code is in the name and you likely heard it operates in the terminal. Once you try it a few times, you realize it’s like talking to any LLM. And if you open it up in an IDE like Cursor, you get the opportunity to easily open it in a folder and manage files without learning cd or having a second app open.

Claude code basics: youtu.be/4nthc76rSl8

Claude code advanced: youtu.be/59gy_24KIVE

Using it on the web: news.aakashg.com/p/how-…

4. Explore the other tools

Not everyone agrees Claude Code is the best. In fact, famously, the creator of Clawdbot (nka OpenClaw) doesn’t “let Opus-4.5 near my code base.”

He exclusively uses codex. So explore the other tools, too.

Codex guide: youtu.be/NYSZ4g7igDg

Windsurf guide: youtu.be/oLmHdymHHg0

Cursor background: news.aakashg.com/p/how-…

Check out antigravity: aakashg.com/ai-prototyp…

5. Build a good content diet to learn

There’s a ton of great content creators out there, but a few that I follow very closely include:

Alex Finn

Peter Yang

Lenny Rachitsky

Andrej Karpathy

Greg Isenberg

Brian Cherny

Ryan Carson

Aman Khan

Carl Velotti

I bring many onto my pod: youtube.com/playlist?si…

And have a weekly AI newsletter: news.aakashg.com/s/ai-u…

Find your crew, then let them do the major sifting of the news for you. This space is changing fast so you need to keep up with the news, but you don’t want to get overwhelmed.

6. Keep iterating and learning

Nothing replaces trying. Start with an AI prototyper like Bolt asap. Then go to Claude Code. Then try the other tools. Pick your favorite, then keep learning.

Take on bigger and bigger projects. And soon, you’ll be ahead of almost everyone.

We’re only 1 year in!