2025 年 2 月，OpenAI 創始成員以及前特斯拉人工智慧總監 Andrej Karpathy 說了一句名言：
「最熱門的新程式語言是英語。」
這聽起來很像矽谷剛發明的新神話。
但如果「用人類語言對電腦下指令」就能消滅工程師與軟體工程的話，那這門學科早在 1959 年就該宣告結束了。那一年，葛麗絲．霍普（Grace Hopper） 推動了 COBOL 。她當時給商業世界的承諾，和今天的 Vibe Coding 非常像：
「經理人只要用日常英文寫句子，系統就會自動運作。」
但六十年過去了，我們還是需要工程師。因為程式語言和語法，從來都不是阻礙人類的高牆，它們比較像是一張安全網。把括號、型別和語法拿掉，並不代表複雜度跟著消失掉了。你只是得用更多、更累贅的形容詞、子句，去重新把邏輯放回自然語言裡。
電腦終於聽懂了英文與中文，但思考的代價並沒有因此打折。
自然語言讓寫程式變容易，卻沒有讓思考變容易。
括號消失了，帳單沒有。
There’s a new kind of coding I call “vibe coding”, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It’s possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like “decrease the padding on the sidebar by half” because I’m too lazy to find it. I “Accept All” always, I don’t read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I’d have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can’t fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It’s not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I’m building a project or webapp, but it’s not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.
https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383