Comment by visarga

Is "vibe engineering" a correct term for this? It's not vibe based when you scaffold constraints around the agent: automated testing, planning in advance, comprehensive documentation, automated formatting and linting, and manual QA.

Don't get me wrong, I started vibe coding after reading Karpathy's post. I got the memo - don't review every line of code, don't stop it when it stumbles, let it recover on its own, trust the process.

But after some experience I realised I need to Constrain the model, it is like a karting track, those tires put around it keep the carts inside and safe. It's our job to set the constraints. So maybe it's "constrained agent work" not "vibe coding".

I go as far as saying the constraint harness around the agent is the new code, we can remove the code and regen it from the constraint harness and docs. What matters now is to build tests and constraints around AI work.