Best 10 Vibe Coding Agency Companies Powering AI-Native Development in 2026

The Year Software Development Stopped Being a Bottleneck Something structurally changed in 2025. Before that year, shipping software meant hiring developers, writing requirements documents, running sprint cycles, waiting for QA, and hoping the result matched what the business actually needed three months after the conversation that started it. After that year, the equation changed. Andrej Karpathy coined the term vibe coding in February 2025. By March 2025 it was a Merriam-Webster trending expression. By the end of 2025 Collins English Dictionary named it their Word of the Year.