Back in the day, you had to know your processor’s architecture to write a program. Now? You just need to have a vibe. What exactly is “vibe-coding,” and why are we even talking about it? It sounds like the kind of buzzword that would make any serious software engineer roll their eyes back so far they could see their own frontal lobe. And yet, here we are in 2025, watching what may well be the next natural evolutionary step in software development unfold before our increasingly perplexed eyes.