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vibe working

/ˈvɔɪ̯b ˈwʊːɹkɪŋ/US/ˈvaɪ̯b ˈwɝkɪŋ/

vibe working noun: 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.

Noun

vibe working (uncountable)

  1. (neologism) 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.
    • Today, we’re bringing vibe working to Microsoft 365 Copilot with Agent Mode in Office apps and Office Agent in Copilot chat. In the same way vibe coding has transformed software development, the latest reasoning models in Copilot unlock agentic productivity for Office artifacts.2025 September 29, Sumit Chauhan, “Vibe working: Introducing Agent Mode and Office Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot”, in Microsoft 365 Product Blog
    • Last month, Microsoft rolled out what it's calling "vibe working," which involves using agentic tools in Excel and Word that can generate documents and spreadsheets. […] But vibe working is still work. Working with AI, and doing it well, takes experimentation and expertise. […] It's not surprising...2025 October 19, Amanda Hoover, “The rise of 'vibe working'”, in Business Insider

Forms of vibe working

alternative formvibeworking

Origin of vibe working

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.

Words formed from vibe working

Questions about vibe working

What does vibe working mean?
Vibe working 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.
What part of speech is vibe working?
Vibe working is a noun.
How do you pronounce vibe working?
Vibe working is pronounced /ˈvaɪ̯b ˈwɝkɪŋ/ (US).

Words near vibe working in the dictionary

  1. vibe shift
  2. vibe shifts
  3. vibe with
  4. vibe worker
  5. vibe workers
  6. vibe working
  7. vibe-code
  8. vibe-shift
  9. vibe-shifts
  10. vibecession
  11. vibecessions

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