By now you’ve probably heard of “vibe coding”: creating software from scratch by prompting AI to generate the source code for you, instead of writing it yourself. The promise of spinning up real working apps from nothing but mushy human language is tantalizing—and companies such as Lovable and Replit have already ridden it to billion-dollar valuations.

There’s just one catch. For a wide swath of businesses with straightforward but mission-critical needs, vibe coding doesn’t actually work. AI still hallucinates, which means the code it generates is often sloppy and occasionally downright malicious. It can’t be trusted to be secure or consistent. No wonder that according to one major survey, 72% of professional software developers don’t use vibe coding tools on the job.

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