Vibe Coding — Vibe coding is an informal style of AI-assisted development in which a person prompts an AI agent in natural language and accepts its output largely on feel, without rigorous specs, review, or traceability. It's fast and great for prototypes, but risky for production software at scale.
The term captures how a lot of AI-assisted building happens today: describe what you want, let the agent generate it, ship what looks right. For throwaway prototypes and solo experiments, that speed is a superpower.
For production software in a team, unstructured vibe coding is where the Orchestration Gap opens: code no one fully understands, no link back to intent, silent spec drift, and unclear blast radius. The fix isn't to slow down — it's to add structure around the speed.
Skaftor is, in effect, governed vibe coding: keep the speed of prompting agents, but capture intent, orchestrate the work, gate the output, and remember it.
It's excellent for prototypes and exploration and risky for production at team scale. The problem isn't AI-generated code — it's the lack of intent capture, governance, and memory around it. Adding those keeps the speed while removing the risk.
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Last updated July 28, 2026 · https://skaftor.com/glossary/vibe-coding