--- title: "Vibe coding — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/vibe_coding as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Vibe coding (💡 Concepts) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › Vibe coding Vibe coding is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 3 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 3 points higher than 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources. Its last hype episode in the 30-day window ran from Sep 18 to Sep 18 (peak 26 on Sep 18). Vibe coding: programming by describing what you want to the AI, with little reading of the generated code. First seen on Wikipedia · Sep 16 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days. Why this stage: within the normal range across monitored sources. - **Stage:** 💤 Quiet — within the normal range across the monitored sources - **Hype score:** 2.7 / 100 · +0.8 in 1 day · +2.7 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 26.2 on Sep 18, 2026 - **Category:** 💡 Concepts - **Part of:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) - **Sources above normal:** 0 of 25 scoring it (0 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 527 - **Share of voice:** 1% of the radar’s attention in 7 days ## Where the attention comes from “Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0. | Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | DEV Community (dev.to) | items | 12 | 6 | 1.9× | no | 78% | | Reddit | posts | 56 | 51 | 1.1× | no | 22% | | AI newsletters (RSS) | items | 1 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Cerebral Valley (AI events) | events | 8 (Sep 26) | 7 | 1.1× | no | 0% | | Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [My vibe-coded photoshop just crossed 20k users](https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1wpaies/) — Reddit (r/vibecoding) · Sep 24 · score 2,207 · 652 comments 2. [Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875801) — Hacker News (github.com) · Sep 28 · score 112 · 51 comments 3. [Lobsters: Rename vibecoding to llms \(Greasemonkey script\)](https://lobste.rs/s/68n22g/lobsters_rename_vibecoding_llms) — Lobste.rs (#vibecoding) · Sep 25 · score 78 · 29 comments 4. [Speaking of boycotts, #Omarchy is an open-source Linux distribution created by David Heinemeier Hansson \(#DHH\), the coder behind Ruby on Rails. DHH has also been infected by the billionaire virus tha…](https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/117316492818758544) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mefi.social) · Sep 22 · score 38 · 1 comment 5. [Vibe Was Never the Problem: The Missing Half of Vibe Coding](https://dev.to/copyleftdev/vibe-was-never-the-problem-the-missing-half-of-vibe-coding-50mi) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 25 · score 25 · 5 comments 6. [Vibe Coding Production Kit – a production workflow for AI coding agents](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836678) — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (github.com) · Sep 24 · score 9 · 6 comments 7. [Build Your First App with AI](https://luma.com/m99jg1b7) — Luma (SF AI events) (NextGenInitiative Silicon Valley) · score 13 8. [Hugelidus/Pointcast: Talk and Alt+click on your web app; Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI or Cursor get the exact elements and the lines of code behind them. Local Whisper.](https://github.com/Hugelidus/Pointcast) — GitHub (Hugelidus) · Sep 27 · score 5 9. [Double agent window cause double plan in single chat](https://forum.cursor.com/t/double-agent-window-cause-double-plan-in-single-chat/172971) — Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) (Cursor Forum) · Sep 25 · score 0 · 0 comments 10. [Stop stealing our Codex quota with these surprise hard resets](https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1wqmbwx/) — Reddit (r/codex) · Sep 26 · score 770 · 398 comments 11. [Show me your vibe coded project here](https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1wp1t9x/) — Reddit (r/vibecoding) · Sep 24 · score 110 · 570 comments 12. [Looking back at how it all started: vibe coding with GPT-3 in 2020](https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1wo3crl/) — Reddit (r/singularity) · Sep 23 · score 717 · 79 comments ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 232 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes): - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 69% of its stories - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 29% of its stories - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 21% of its stories - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 5.2% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 3.9% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 3.5% of its stories ## Related topics - **Part of:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) - **Related to:** [Claude Code](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_code.md), [Cursor](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cursor.md) - **Mentioned with:** [OpenAI Codex](https://abovethefog.app/topics/codex.md) (76 stories), [Antigravity](https://abovethefog.app/topics/antigravity.md) (9 stories), [Instinct](https://abovethefog.app/topics/instinct.md) (4 stories), [SF AI hackathons and events](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sf_hackathons.md) (3 stories), [Cognition](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cognition.md) (3 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 2.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 1.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 25, 2026 | 9.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 24, 2026 | 18.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 23, 2026 | 3.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 22, 2026 | 3.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 21, 2026 | 1.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 26.2 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 17, 2026 | 18.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 16, 2026 | 13.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 8.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 14, 2026 | 2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 13, 2026 | 0.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 0.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 11, 2026 | 2.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 11.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 3.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 1.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 1.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 0.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 1.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 16.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 20.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 18.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 18.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 17.3 | 🧊 Cooling | | Aug 29, 2026 | 18.3 | 🧊 Cooling | [Open Vibe coding in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=vibe_coding) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/vibe_coding) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)