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“Vibe coding” is Collins dictionary’s word of the year.

The nod to the increasingly popular practice of getting AI to write code for you is technically two words, but at least they’re words — Dictionary.com picked the number “67” instead. It admits “we’re all still trying to figure out exactly what it means.”

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