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ThinNeighborhood2276 on April 2, 2025 12:21 pm Interesting visualization! How did you measure the spread of “Vibe coding” on GitHub?
domagesky on April 2, 2025 12:21 pm I’ve built a tool that analyzes the popularity of technologies and trends using GitHub search data. One interesting finding was the emergence of “Vibe coding,” spreading like a wildfire across GitHub repositories. **Data source:** GitHub search **Tool:** [GitHub Trends Analysis](https://trends.domage.dev/?search=Vibe+coding&date=2023-01-01&startYear=2022&endYear=2025&granularity=month&metric=repositories&showHIndex=false&showTrend=true) You can read more about the methodology and how I adapted the H-index approach to GitHub repositories here: [https://medium.com/@glebradchenko/how-i-decided-to-figure-out-which-technologies-are-popular-today-and-ended-up-creating-github-4135ed4b9ee4](https://medium.com/@glebradchenko/how-i-decided-to-figure-out-which-technologies-are-popular-today-and-ended-up-creating-github-4135ed4b9ee4)
FrewdWoad on April 2, 2025 12:28 pm So mentions of the phrase “vibe coding” went up, from zero mentions a month, to some mentions a month, right after the term was invented? Fascinating…
minutieux on April 2, 2025 2:56 pm In vibe coding, maintainability hell is the secret sauce that keeps the vibes flowing
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Interesting visualization! How did you measure the spread of “Vibe coding” on GitHub?
I’ve built a tool that analyzes the popularity of technologies and trends using GitHub search data.
One interesting finding was the emergence of “Vibe coding,” spreading like a wildfire across GitHub repositories.
**Data source:** GitHub search
**Tool:** [GitHub Trends Analysis](https://trends.domage.dev/?search=Vibe+coding&date=2023-01-01&startYear=2022&endYear=2025&granularity=month&metric=repositories&showHIndex=false&showTrend=true)
You can read more about the methodology and how I adapted the H-index approach to GitHub repositories here: [https://medium.com/@glebradchenko/how-i-decided-to-figure-out-which-technologies-are-popular-today-and-ended-up-creating-github-4135ed4b9ee4](https://medium.com/@glebradchenko/how-i-decided-to-figure-out-which-technologies-are-popular-today-and-ended-up-creating-github-4135ed4b9ee4)
So mentions of the phrase “vibe coding” went up, from zero mentions a month, to some mentions a month, right after the term was invented?
Fascinating…
So what the fuck is vibe coding
In vibe coding, maintainability hell is the secret sauce that keeps the vibes flowing