In the same interview, Karpathy says nanochat was not built by vibe coding
In the same interview, stated that nanochat was not built with vibe coding — saying coding models kept misunderstanding his custom implementation and suggesting deprecated APIs, and that he mostly uses autocomplete and limits vibe coding to boilerplate or unfamiliar languages
Why it matters
The coiner of the term publicly narrowed its scope. His own rebuttal to stretching vibe coding to cover production development
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Pressdwarkesh.comhttps://www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-karpathyAdded in Week 35, 2026 · See that week