The End of 'Vibe Coding'
For the past year, the industry has been enamored with 'vibe coding'—the act of throwing natural language prompts at an LLM and hoping the resulting code fits into your project. It was the "spark" phase of AI adoption, a necessary period of experimentation where we learned what these models could do.
But as we move deeper into 2025, the novelty is wearing off. We are hitting the limits of what "chatting with a bot" can achieve. If you’ve spent hours refactoring AI-generated code that didn't follow your project’s architecture, you know exactly what I mean. The 'Figma-to-code' gap isn't just about design translation anymore; it’s about architectural alignment.
The era of 'vibe coding' is ending. The era of AI Engineering has begun.
Moving from 'Magic' to 'System-Aware'
