Vibe Engineering

• Vibe engineering should be differentiated from Vibe Coding in Simon Willison - Vibe engineering blog:

Vibe engineering establishes a clear distinction from vibe coding. It signals that this is a different, harder and more sophisticated way of working with AI tools to build production software.

• Uses of vibe engineering
  • JustHTML is a fascinating example of vibe engineering in action

• AI Dev Tools
• AI Developer Skills
  • Hub for skill frameworks (Superpowers, Addy Osmani Agent Skills, Matt Pocock Skills) that encode engineering discipline into agent skills
• Sandboxes
  • Isolated execution environments wrapping AI coding agent loops — branch/commit management, parallel runs, review gates
• Agent Orchestrators
  • Terminal-native tools (Herdr, Claude Squad, workmux, dmux, ccmanager) that run many AI coding CLIs in parallel via tmux sessions and git worktrees
• Ghost Libraries
  • A Software Library with No Code
    • 2026-01-08
  • dbreunig/whenwords
• Vibe Engineering Resources
• AI Fatigue
  • Psychological exhaustion, loss of joy, and burnout from AI tool pressure and vibe coding culture
• iOS Terminals