What is Vibe Coding?

Definition of vibe coding

The term vibe coding was popularized in early 2025 by Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI. The idea is simple: instead of writing code line by line, you describe what you want to build in English (or French), and an artificial intelligence generates the corresponding code.

Unlike no-code (Bubble, Webflow), which locks you into templates and functional limits, vibe coding produces real code, exactly the same as a professional developer would write. You have no technical limits.

The result: entrepreneurs, freelancers and non-technical professionals can build complete web applications, deploy them in production, and keep evolving them, without ever having learned to code.

How does vibe coding work?

The process is conversational. You describe your need to the AI the way you would explain it to a colleague:

• "Create a sign-up page with an email and password form"
• "Add a Stripe payment system with 3 pricing plans"
• "Update the home page to make it more modern, with a rainbow gradient"

The AI understands your intent, generates the code, integrates it into your project, and you see the result in real time. If it is not exactly what you wanted, you iterate in plain language until you get the perfect result.

It is a creative dialogue between you and the AI, hence the term "vibe": you guide the direction, the AI executes.

Vibe coding tools

Several tools let you do vibe coding. The main ones:

• Claude Code (Anthropic): the most powerful tool for professional vibe coding. It works directly in your project, understands the full architecture, and can edit dozens of files in a single command. It is the tool used in the Hypervibe training.
• Cursor: an AI-augmented code editor. More visual, suited to developers who want an assistant inside their IDE.
• Windsurf, Bolt, Lovable: alternatives geared toward rapid prototyping, often in the browser.

The key difference with Claude Code: it does not just generate snippets of code, it understands and maintains an entire project, the way a senior developer would.

Vibe coding vs no-code: what is the difference?

Getting trained in vibe coding

Vibe coding is accessible to everyone, but it requires a method. Knowing what to ask the AI, how to structure a project, how to deploy to production, these are skills you can learn.

Hypervibe is a 2-day in-person training, led by Flavien Chervet (150+ AI talks, 4 books, Time France columnist). You walk away with a complete web application in production, your own, and the method to build as many as you want.

The training is delivered via IRIIG (Qualiopi-certified provider) and is fundable through your OPCO.