Beyond Vibe Coding: Building AI-Assisted Development You Can Trust
Last week I built and deployed an application where Claude Code wrote every line of the code. I did this deliberately, outside my core professional expertise, and with enough at stake to take the governance seriously. Working through it brought something into focus that I keep returning to in conversations with engineering leaders about AI-assisted delivery. The term “vibe coding” is both accurate and misleading. Accurate, because there genuinely is something collaborative in a good session with an AI coding assistant, where you describe what you want, it responds, you refine, it adapts....