Issue No. 40Week ending Sunday, October 4, 2026507 episodes · 2183 articles
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Vibe coding: how often the top podcasts talk about it.

Vibe coding peaked in the four weeks to May 10, at 9 of 52 episodes (17%). It is at 2% now, well below its usual 9%.

2 of 89episodes, four weeks to Sep 27

Share of episodes, four weeks at a time

17%May 109 of 5211%Jun 75 of 4610%Jul 57 of 6911%Aug 26 of 555%Aug 303 of 552%Sep 272 of 89
Share of episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover that said “vibe coding” or “vibe code” at least twice, in blocks of four weeks. Each label is the block's last Sunday. The newest block is the orange bar on the right.
The 2 episodes behind the newest bar

Earliest mentions in our archive

The first episode from each show that said it, oldest first. The matched words are marked.

“…a great product manager, product leader and rapid is one of the leading vibe coding tools alongside the likes of…”

20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Apr 19 · Watch at 0:24 ↗

Replit CEO: Why Coding Models are Plateauing & Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified | Amj…

“…of people in businesses who are trying to vibe code their way to success trying to push this stuff and we had an…”

All-In Podcast · week ending May 3 · Watch at 52:41 ↗

OpenAI Misses Targets, Codex vs Claude, Elon vs Sam Trial, Big Hyperscaler Beats, Peptide…

“…way worse. So, I started Memelord about four months before vibe coding started hitting.”

How I AI · week ending May 3 · Watch at 0:05 ↗

How a non-technical founder built a $100K ARR meme company | Jason Levin (Memelord CEO)

“…do that now I do have a general sort of maybe issue with vibe coding uh in the sense of I I don't feel like the quality…”

Lenny's Podcast · week ending May 3 · Watch at 7:55 ↗

Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening…

“…paperbased workflow and you're saying like let's go vibe code a software solution for it like or is it…”

TBPN · week ending May 3 · Watch at 1:32:20 ↗

Mike Isaac (NYT) Joins, Earnings Review, Beautiful Data Centers, Coatue is Land Maxxing

“…creating trust not just in us but like in in the whole space and that this vibe coding things it's it's possible…”

My First Million · week ending May 10 · Watch at 6:52 ↗

I made $250M in one year. Here's what it actually cost me

Most recent mentions

The newest episodes that count toward the chart, no more than two from one show.

“…like a like basically a CLI like a really bespoke weird CLI like I vibe code it but I use like sort of odd…”

TBPN · week ending Sep 27 · Watch at 27:26 ↗

Andreessen Horowitz Launches Horowitz Andreessen, New Models, Human Powered Agents, McLar…

“- Well, hold on a second. What's the lesson from that? Is one of the lessons from that that you have to be a programmer at this stage to be able to vibe code? - To be able to vibe code on existing substantial…”

Lex Fridman Podcast · week ending Aug 30 · Watch at 17:29 ↗

DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Po…

“…computer because it creates this private network where even if you're vibe coding like on your MacBook Pro and you just…”

How I AI · week ending Jul 19 · Watch at 15:39 ↗

Local AI models explained: How to run a fleet of Mac Studios and GPUs at home

“Yeah. And this is like the really interesting thing about vibe coding. If we were sitting here last year, people…”

All-In Podcast · week ending Jul 19 · Watch at 29:19 ↗

Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable CEO on the Real Promise of Vib…

“AI right now. Like force yourself to code this to, you know, I've tried vibe coding. I personally find co-work plus…”

My First Million · week ending Jul 12 · Watch at 48:10 ↗

If I was 30 with $0, I'd build this

Which shows say it

ShowLast four weeksAll weeks counted
TBPN211
All-In Podcast04
How I AI03
Lenny's Podcast03
My First Million03
20VC with Harry Stebbings02
Latent Space02
Cheeky Pint01
Dwarkesh Podcast01
Lex Fridman Podcast01
The Tim Ferriss Show01

More trends

Episodes in the newest four weeks:

How we count. An episode counts when its transcript says “vibe coding” or “vibe code” at least twice; plurals count too. We count a shortened re-upload of an episode we already have only once, and we skip the sponsor reads we can spot: the lines around phrases like “brought to you by”, and any passage a show reads word for word in three or more episodes. The share is the counted episodes divided by all episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover in the same four weeks, so a busy month of releases does not raise it by itself. The mix of shows does change from month to month, and one daily show can move a number. Weeks run Monday to Sunday, and the week in progress is left out until it ends. The chart starts with the week of April 13, 2026, when our archive became steady. A few older episodes can still appear under the earliest mentions, and some weeks have gaps. Transcripts are automatic captions, so we also match the spellings they use. The counts cover only the shows we summarize. Download the counts (JSON) or CSV.

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