Good vibes only

Google Trends suggests we&rsquo;ve reached peak vibes. This is presumably down to &ldquo;vibe coding&rdquo; – a term coined by Andrej Karpathy a year ago. Like many others, I noticed a step change in the coding abilities of AI models in December 2025 with the combination of Claude Code and Opus 4.5. &#xA; &#xA; LinkedIn is now awash with slopfluencer predictions about the death of software…