Phrase guide

vibe working

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Sound

Pronunciation

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  • General-American: /ˈvaɪ̯b ˈwɝkɪŋ/
  • /ˈvɔɪ̯b ˈwʊːɹkɪŋ/ Dublin

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noun

Meaning 1

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: neologism, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Coined by Anthropic's head of product for enterprise Scott White in February 2026—seemingly independently, against previous occasional introductions that represented mere attempts to gain traction in reference to single toolsets and distanced discussions of such and did not have the same semantic breadth—, publicized three days and a year after the term vibe coding from the side of OpenAI, see quotations below.

Across languages

Translations

1 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • German: Vibeworking — method of preparing knowledge