What! Hu Yanbin Is Also Practicing Vibe Coding?
Literary figures and celebrities like Yu Hua and Hu Yanbin are embracing Vibe Coding, showing AI technology expanding beyond programming to broader audiences. Vibe Coding lowers the barrier to software creation by allowing non-programmers to use natural language descriptions.
The trend of Vibe Coding has spread from programmers to literary and entertainment circles. Yu Hua, renowned author of "To Live" and "Chronicle of a Blood Merchant," recently appeared on a Bilibili show and proudly stated that he has learned the term "local deployment," signaling his embrace of AI technology. When asked about students using AI to recreate classic works, he responded with openness, saying it's a trend and AI is a form of creation.
Meanwhile, singer-songwriter Hu Yanbin posted on social media with the caption "Vibe Coding pose! On the road to fixing bugs..." The image showed his screen with "Query Tencent…Connect Claude with Mac St…" clearly visible, indicating he has been actively coding. In a recent episode of the music show "Singer," Hu revealed that he spent a month Vibe Coding and successfully built his own fan community app called "Yanhuo." Interestingly, as early as 2024, before Karpathy coined the term, Hu had already started watching software tutorial videos and learning to code.
The phenomenon extends to Hollywood as well. Milla Jovovich, star of the "Resident Evil" series, collaborated with a programmer friend and Claude to create an AI memory system called MemPalace, inspired by the ancient "memory palace" technique. The system achieved a record high score of 96.6% on the LongMemEval benchmark and has garnered 52.6k stars on GitHub.
Vibe Coding, a term popularized by AI expert Andrej Karpathy in 2025, refers to a new way of coding where individuals describe what they want in natural language, and the AI handles code generation, debugging, and feature implementation. This approach makes software creation accessible to everyone, regardless of programming background.
The idea of "everyone being a developer" has been attempted multiple times in the past with tools like Dreamweaver, Wix, and low-code platforms, but Vibe Coding may finally realize it. As the article concludes, "Vibe Coding stage, if you have a dream, come on stage!"