“Vibe coding” searches are up 6700% in the last three months

Originally shared on LinkedIn on May 30 2025.

“Vibe coding” searches are up 6700% in the last three months.

Not long ago, starting a company as a non-technical founder felt like showing up to a marathon with no shoes. You had the idea, but not the technical skills, the talent, or the funding to make it real. Unless you could code (or could afford to hire someone who could), your vision often stayed in the notebook.

Now things are starting to change.

The use of AI in programming and development isn’t new, but the concept of “vibe coding,” coined by OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy earlier this year, is. It uses gen AI to automate coding tasks that were traditionally done manually. This goes beyond typical AI assistants and drag-and-drop no-code tools. The focus is on the outcome, not the method.

Earlier this year, in March, a quarter of startups in Y Combinator’s winter cohort had codebases that were almost entirely AI-generated.

And I get the hype because I’ve been vibe coding my way through real problems over the past few months - building out initial prototypes to test ideas quickly:

👩‍⚕️ My little sister lives with sickle cell, which is a rare disease, so I built a platform that curates insights to help her manage crises and find key information quickly.

🤹‍♂️ I needed to find something meaningful for my 17 year old brother to do over the summer. So I vibe coded a tool that surfaces tailored programs and aggregates reviews based on his interests.

While debugging is still one of AI’s weaker spots, progress is being made and the vibe coding space is heating up fast. Startups like Cursor (by Anysphere), Windsurf, Replit, Lovable, bolt.new, and Cognition are leading the charge, while the big players are racing to catch up. Just last week, Google launched Stitch, an AI-powered UI builder that generates front-end code from text or images, using Gemini 2.5 models. Microsoft rolled out major updates to GitHub Copilot at Build 2025, OpenAI launched a new version of Codex, and Anthropic released its most powerful models for code yet (Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4). Google also expanded access to Jules, its autonomous coding agent now in public beta, which helps developers tackle debugging and upgrading codebases.

Vibe coding is already unlocking possibilities for anyone who’s ever wanted to build but lacked the technical skills. If you can describe what you want to create, an LLM can help you build it.

Would love to hear what platforms people have been building lately. Reach out!