Vibe Coding Won’t Save the World—Here’s Why

Vibe Coding Won’t Save the World—Here’s Why

Jun 3, 2025

Kimi Lu

1. The Rise (and Hype) of “Vibe Coding”

Scroll tech-Twitter for five minutes and you’ll see it: clips of engineers “vibe coding,” pasting vague prompts into an LLM, and watching a React app materialize. It’s entertaining—and undeniably useful for quick experiments—but the narrative that vibe coding will democratize software is dangerously oversold.

2. Software’s Real Bottleneck Isn’t Syntax—It’s Modeling the Problem

• Abstraction > Implementation.
Decades of computer-science progress have already minimized the pain of syntax. Frameworks, libraries, and now AI copilots churn out code in seconds. What remains stubbornly hard is deciding what to build: breaking a fuzzy, messy real-world challenge into clean data models, business rules, edge-cases, and hand-offs that machines can execute.

• The 1% Creator Gap.
In my previous no-code startup, Momen (> 300k users), barely 1% could design or extend a template; the remaining 99% were comfortable only tweaking cosmetics. LLMs don’t magically teach the other 99% to think like system engineers—they simply mask the gap with a conversational veneer.

3. Why Vibes Collapse at Scale

Hidden Complexity

Why Vibe Coding Trips

Integration Debt

90% of high-value apps call ≥ 1 external API. LLM-generated glue code works until a rate-limit, auth scheme, or version bump breaks silently at 2 a.m.

Evolving Requirements

Businesses pivot weekly. Prompt-grown codebases calcify because there’s no conceptual map of why modules exist.

Compliance & Quality

GDPR, SOC 2, brand guidelines—none survive copy-pasted snippets without an explicit rule engine validating outputs.

Team Collaboration

Code written “for the vibes” lacks the shared, declarative contract that lets multiple people—or agents—reason about intent.

Result: the hidden complexity you didn’t model comes roaring back as outages, rewrites, and security incidents.

4. Documents as the Missing Interface

Humans already govern nations with law documents; why shouldn’t we run software the same way? Natural-language contracts excel at:

  1. Clarity of Intent – easy for stakeholders to read and amend.

  2. Composable Abstraction – a contract can import (“reference”) another, hiding implementation details.

  3. Rule Enforcement – success criteria can be stated up-front, then programmatically tested.

5. From Vibe to Verifiable: The Doc-to-Run Paradigm

At Aident AI we treat each Agency Agreement as executable source-of-truth:

  • Users write goals & constraints in plain English.

  • Our Doc-to-Run compiler turns that into:

    • an Execution Plan for manager agents, and

    • Test Cases for QA agents.

  • A Runtime Platform spins up the required tool-agents, enforces SLAs, and self-heals when APIs change.

The complexity lives inside the document—not the user’s head. Instead of hoping vibes align, we validate every step against the contract.

6. Takeaways for Builders

  1. Vibe coding is a great sketchpad, not a blueprint.

  2. Problem modeling remains the democratization frontier.

  3. Declarative documents + compilers beat ad-hoc prompts for mission-critical work.

Until we close the modeling gap, shipping real products will require more than good vibes—it demands a contract between humans, AI agents, and the tools they wield. That’s the future we’re building at Aident AI.


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