The story
Coined by Anthropic's head of product for enterprise Scott White in February 2026, and publicized about a year after the term vibe coding from the side of OpenAI; see quotations below.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
vibe working
Today it means: A workflow of a knowledge worker, especially one offering professional services, developed through repeated natural language prompts to a large language model that helps verify the worker’s knowledge or results more quickly. Full definition →