Open Access
- 12 April 2026
- conference paper
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- p. 16-18
Abstract
“Vibe coding” represents a paradigm shift where non-technical users, or “software makers”, create applications by describing the desired outcome, focusing entirely on the final output rather than the underlying code. This movement, propelled by hyper-growth platforms like Lovable, Bubble, and Glide, actualizes the vision of “AIware”: software for all, by all. However, this remarkable progress is currently confined to applications of limited complexity and introduces significant risks of unreliability and failure. This 90-minute technical briefing introduces Vibe Engineering, a structured framework for AI-assisted software creation that goes beyond one-shot prompts. The framework operates by defining roles, specifying artifacts, and orchestrating a repeatable process. It is built on two foundational pillars: (1) Intent Engineering, which focuses on deeply understanding user needs through multi-agent dialogues, Theory of Mind (ToM) principles, and test-driven requirement refinement; and (2) Realization Engineering, a specialized Agent Execution Environment (AEE) where multi-agent teams autonomously build, test, and verify the software based on the user’s validated intent. This briefing provides an insider’s view of the technical challenges in this domain and surfaces concrete software engineering research opportunities.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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