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 Fatigue
  • Psychological exhaustion, loss of joy, and burnout from AI tool pressure and vibe coding culture
• AI Dev Tools
• Ghost Libraries
  • A Software Library with No Code
    • 2026-01-08
  • dbreunig/whenwords

• Books
  • Vibe Engineering
    • Tomasz Lelek & Artur Skowroński — Manning, MEAP 2026
• Blog
  • Simon Willison - Vibe engineering
    • 2025-10-07
  • Structured-Prompt-Driven Development (SPDD)
    • Martin Fowler - 2026-04-28 — Wei Zhang & Jessie Jie Xia on making LLM-assisted changes governable, reviewable, and reusable
• Videos
  • AI Engineering - From Vibe Coding To Vibe Engineering – Kitze, Sizzy
    • 2025-12-14
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  • AI Mounting Instead Of Onboarding
    • 2026-05-13 — @jmwind on how an AI-native company “mounts” engineers onto institutional memory via agents instead of onboarding them over months