Vibe Coding is the fastest growing business skill that empowers anyone who can clearly define a problem to build their own software solution.

In February 2025, Andrej Karpathy named something millions of people were already doing: vibe coding. But back in 2023, he'd already told us what was coming: "The hottest new programming language is English." 

That's the shift. You can describe what you need in plain language and get working software back. No syntax to memorize. No Stack Overflow rabbit holes. No waiting for a developer to have time in Q3.

Vibe coding is the practice. But the real story is about making an entirely new set of business problems solvable, by the people who actually understand them.

Vibe coding is fast becoming a differentiating business skill, accelerating productivity, creativity, and scale. Driven by full featured AI platforms like CREAO, the practice is exploding, with novel, customized, productivity accelerating solutions permeating the marketplace and disrupting how people interact with software.  63% of vibe coding users are non-developers creating UIs, full-stack apps, and personal software.

What is Vibe Coding?

Vibe coding is describing what you need in plain English and getting working software back. Then using it, improving it, or rebuilding it based on what you learn.

The mechanics are simple: describe functionality in natural language, AI generates the code, you run it. When something's wrong, you describe the fix. When you want something different, you describe that instead.

Karpathy's original description was deliberately casual: "I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy-paste stuff, and it mostly works." He'd ask AI for things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because he couldn't be bothered to find the right file. When errors appeared, he'd paste them back with no comment. Usually that fixed it.

Vibe Coding is fast becoming a foundational business skill. That skill is seeing problems, understanding them, the value in solving them, and being able to describe problems clearly to iterate on a solution, all using natural language. The difference now is that with vibe coding, those who see opportunity don’t have to wait for someone else to build the solution.

What can you build with vibe coding?

Vibe coding solves problems. Every practitioner encounters a myriad of problems, each one an opportunity for increased productivity, competitive advantage, or faster revenue growth.  Today those problems are often solved with manual processes, hacked tools, forgotten shared files, new tasks added to job descriptions, or often just left unanswered.

In CREAO's marketplace we get a glimpse of all the solutions vibe coders are imagining.  Here, practitioners publish projects and templates, revealing the wide variety of use cases that are driving organization, productivity, and even entertainment for early practitioners. 

We see business tools for individuals and teams: Sales tracker that automatically generates daily reports from your pipeline, Employee attendance manager that verifies check-ins with photo capture, Inventory tracker managing stock across multiple warehouses.

There are vertical-specific workflows allowing small teams or individuals to run more: Tattoo studio scheduler with deposit tracking, Farm manager monitoring livestock health and feed schedules, Gas bill delivery system with multi-channel payment notifications.

And you’ll find students building their own tools while honing their future ready skills: AI tutors that quiz on weak spots identified from previous sessions, Campus enrollment pipeline managers, Certification prep systems that track progress and readiness.

And yes, vibe coding can be for fun, with many users creating novel games, from scratch or iterating from their favourite patterns.

What makes this work: you're not learning to code or fighting with frameworks. You're describing the process you need automated and iterating when it's not quite right. The workflow tool your business actually needs probably doesn't exist as a product you can buy. But you can build it this afternoon.

Why This Actually Matters

Vibe coding matters because it expands who can solve business problems and how fast they can do it. Before vibe coding, you had two options for solving a problem: configure an existing tool (limited by what someone else built) or hire developers (expensive and slow). Most business problems fall into the gap between those options—too specific for off-the-shelf software, too small to justify custom development.

Now that gap is closed. You build exactly what you need. If you understand your problem well, you build a solution directly. If you don't, you build something rough, use it to learn what you're actually dealing with, and rebuild it. Either way, you're solving problems that were previously out of reach.

The average enterprise app takes 6-8 months to develop. The average vibe-coded tool? Under an hour. Most CREAO users have a working first version in under 30 minutes.

The question isn't whether this is real. It's whether you'll use it to solve problems your competitors can't.

What Skills Do You Need?

This is a genuine business capability, not a technical skill. Two things matter:

First: describing problems clearly. Not in technical specs, but in plain language that captures what you're trying to do. "I need to see which clients haven't heard from us in two weeks" is enough. The AI handles translation.

Second: recognizing when solutions miss the mark. You build something, use it, notice it's clunky or missing something, and rebuild it. Or you realize it's solving the wrong problem entirely and build something different. That loop, build, use, learn, evolve, is now fast enough to be how you figure out what you actually need.

The professionals who can solve their own problems move faster than those who can't. They don't wait for IT roadmaps or vendor feature requests. They build what they need, when they need it.

Those who can vibe solutions to their own problems will outpace those waiting for solutions from someone else.

How to Start

Pick one manual task that frustrates you. Describe what a tool to fix it would do. Build it. Use it. Improve it or rebuild it based on what you learn.

Start with something specific. Not "build me a CRM" but "show me which clients I haven't followed up with this week." Not "build me a content calendar" but "track which blog posts are ready to publish versus still in draft."

Describe it the way you'd explain it to a colleague. What would the tool do? What would you see when you opened it? What actions would you take inside it?

Then build it. Browse the CREAO marketplace for examples of what others have built, or start from scratch with a description. You can have something working in under 30 minutes. Or it may take you a few days to get it to your satisfaction. Iteration becomes so easy, the trick is stopping when it’s good enough (for now).

Use it for real work. That's where you learn whether it solves the problem or whether you need to adjust it.

If it's not quite right, rebuild it. Now that building is cheap, being wrong the first time isn't a failure, it's just the first iteration.

The window is open. The professionals who can build solutions to their own problems are already ahead.

About CREAO

CREAO is an AI-native productivity platform where you describe what you want and get a working application—complete with database, hosting, and infrastructure. No setup, no configuration, no "let me figure out deployment first."

You focus on the problem. We handle the foundation.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need coding experience to vibe code?

No. The skill is describing what you need clearly and recognizing when the solution doesn't quite match. If you can do those two things—and most people in business roles already can—you can vibe code. Traditional programming knowledge can help you debug edge cases, but it's not required to build something useful.

How long does it take to build something useful?

Most people have a working first version in under 30 minutes. Whether that's "useful" depends on how well you understood the problem going in. If you knew exactly what you needed, 30 minutes might be enough. If you're figuring it out as you go, expect to rebuild it a few times. Either way, you're solving problems that used to require weeks of development time.

What's the difference between vibe coding and no-code tools?

No-code tools give you pre-built components to arrange within fixed constraints. You're limited to what the platform anticipated you might want. Vibe coding generates custom solutions based on what you describe. The constraint isn't the platform's components—it's how clearly you can explain what you're trying to do. No-code has a ceiling; vibe coding has a learning curve.

Do I need technical skills?

No, but it helps. The capability to create applications has developed rapidly in a very short time, and during that maturity continues to eliminate the need for technical skill. That will continue.  For many use cases, if you can work in excel, you can vibe code.  If you are building internal tools for productivity gain you will unlikely be constrained by technical capability. More complex systems or client facing processes, will benefit from technical knowledge.  Sensitive systems with security demands will still require development oversight for confident implementation.

How do I get started with vibe coding?

Pick a specific, annoying problem. Not "build me a CRM" but "track which clients I need to follow up with this week." Build the simplest version you can imagine. Use it for real work tomorrow. If it's not quite right, describe the fix and rebuild it. Platforms like CREAO handle infrastructure so you're focused on solving the problem, not configuring servers.