Vibe Coding: The Shadow IT Problem No One Saw Coming

Vibe coding is a trending buzzword for conversationally prompting an AI agent to produce software. Its creator, Andrej Karpathy, described the process as “not really coding — I just see things, say things, run things, and copy-paste things, and it mostly works,” and he found it “not too bad for throwaway weekend projects.”

One key distinction between vibe coding and other forms of AI-assisted coding is the acceptance of the code generated by the agent without inspection. When you’re vibe coding, you don’t need to read code or…