Section 7 — Patterns of Work
Vibe coding
A working pattern where the user accepts the agent's code without human review. The diff is treated as opaque — what matters is whether the program behaves, not what's inside. A...
A working pattern where the user accepts the agent's code without human review. The diff is treated as opaque — what matters is whether the program behaves, not what's inside. Automated review and automated checks may still run; vibe coding is silent on both.
Avoid: "vibe coding" as a synonym for "low-quality AI coding" — the term names the review stance, not the resulting code.
Usage:
"Did you read what it changed in the auth flow?"
"Vibe coded it — login still works, that's all I checked."
"Read the diff before you push, vibing on auth is how secrets leak into logs."