The future of coding has a vibe problem: balancing creativity with control

Recently awarded the 2025 word of the year by Collins Dictionary, vibe-coding has caught on as the latest AI trend.

Many organizations are jumping on the bandwagon and proposing their own vibe led workplace processes, from vibe-working and vibe-marketing to vibe-automation, with varying degrees of success.

“Vibe” is used increasingly to refer to processes in the workplace that are based on intuition and put creativity first.

This is made possible for developers through the power of AI tools; with vibe-coding, developers are guided by ideas and impulses, and the support of language models means code emerges almost incidentally.

It's less about structured programming as technical complexity fades into the background.

However, what is lost when quality and security controls are no longer prioritized? Also ...