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Vibe coding—the rapidly growing trend of using generative AI to generate code from plain-language prompts—is swift, original, and perfect for instant prototyping. However, many argue that it is not suitable for building production-ready business applications with the security, management, and trusted infrastructure that enterprises require. In other words, a few programming hours saved could mean a future full of security vulnerabilities, endless maintenance issues, and scalability issues, says Mohith Shrivastava, chief developer advocate at Salesforce.
“For rapid experimentation, building minimum viable products and tackling creative challenges, vibration coding is a game changer,” says Shrivastava. “However, this same speed and improvisational nature make its use in the professional enterprise a topic of intense debate. The developer community’s skepticism is 100% justified.”
Risks and benefits of vibration coding
The excitement is in the speed: going from an initial idea to a working prototype in a matter of hours rather than weeks is a huge advantage. But as Shrivastava shared, developers have been vocal about the potential downsides.
“When you apply vibration coding to your entire application stack, you not only move quickly; you accumulate risk at an unprecedented rate,” explains Shrivastava. “The disadvantages are significant.”
This includes potential security nightmares, as AI models typically do not take into account a company’s specific security policies. They can easily introduce security vulnerabilities such as hard-coded secrets or utilize insecure, hallucinatory packages. Then there’s the issue of what Shrivastava calls “spaghetti code on steroids,” full code that lacks a consistent architectural pattern, creating a mountain of technical debt.
Equally disturbing is the illusion of progress: vibration coding can complete 80% of features in record time, but the remaining 20% - edge cases, performance tuning, and compatibility work – becomes exponentially more hard.
But does this mean that vibration coding has no place in the enterprise?
“The idea that you can simply create a complex, secure and maintainable enterprise application is a dangerous fantasy,” says Shrivastava. “But – the benefits are undeniable when used correctly. The key is not to avoid vibration coding, but to apply it intelligently in your enterprise.”
Red and green zones: enterprise-grade vibration coding
You cannot and absolutely should not encode the vibrations of an entire enterprise stack with any generic tool, warns Shrivastava. However, when combined with no-code, low-code, or professional-code tools that are built for enterprises, many of the gaps can be filled. For example, an enterprise-grade vibration coding solution can automatically scan for security issues, flag performance bottlenecks, and provide a safety net.
It is also critical to understand which parts of the application suit this approach and which require a higher level of trust and control. To illustrate this, Shrivastava divides the stack into red and green zones.
The green zone is the presentation layer, i.e. UI and UX. It is ideal for vibration coding, where developers can move quickly and iterate quickly without much risk. The opposite is the red zone, which covers the core pillars of the application, including business logic and data layers.
Strengthening the position of developers in the green zone
Developer knowledge remains the basis for effective and sheltered vibration coding. However, developers can utilize AI tools and up-to-date agents embedded in the business context, connected to real applications, integrations and data flows.
“A generic AI agent can’t capture your company’s unique processes, but a context-aware tool can act as a powerful pair programmer, helping a developer develop complex logic or model data with greater speed and accuracy,” says Shrivastava. “The idea is to make the specialist programmer more efficient, not to have him do his job for him.”
Some areas will always be at high risk for uncontrolled AI – especially infrastructure and security. Allowing a generic AI agent to configure firewalls or manage identity and access [IAM] Politics without oversight, warns Shrivastava, is a recipe for disaster. The solution is not to avoid the red zone altogether, but to approach it with the right tools – ones that take governance, security and context into account from the ground up.
“The winning strategy is clear: Vibe code the green zone for agility, move closer to the red zone by giving developers powerful, contextual tools, and never, ever build your core infrastructure with AI,” he says.
Using coding in a corporate spirit
To harness the power of enterprise-style coding, Salesforce has developed Agentforce vibes. This up-to-date enterprise vibration coding offering includes Agentforce, an autonomous AI agent built to collaborate like a pair developer on the Salesforce platform. It is designed carefully to give developers the right tools for their job, covering both the green and red zones. For the green zone, it provides speed and flexibility to quickly create user interfaces and prototypes. However, its real strength lies in how it supports developers in the red zone.
“Enterprise coding like Agentforce allows organizations to take AI-powered development to the organizational level, accelerating coding, testing and deployment while ensuring consistency, security and performance,” says Dan Fernandez, vice president of software products and services at Salesforce. “It’s not about abandoning management for speed; it’s about integrating AI into every stage of the application lifecycle to work smarter.”
Because Agentforce Vibes tools are deeply integrated with the business context on the platform, they can securely support business logic and data modeling. Most importantly, it runs on a trusted platform. Instead of a DIY approach – jury-selecting a generic AI agent to run the network – developers build on a foundation that has security and governance built in, so they can innovate confidently, knowing that the most critical layers of the stack are secure and compliant.
Gigantic enterprises utilize vibration coding to operate
According to Salesforce data, Agentforce Vibes users are currently using the tool to build approximately 20-25% of their up-to-date code base, with users committing approximately 1.2 million lines of agent code per month. This includes companies such as Coinbase, CGI, Grupo Globo and one of the five largest banks in the US, which uses the capabilities of Agentforce Vibes to create production-ready applications faster.
Agentforce Vibes is part of a suite of tools in Agentforce 360 that covers both no-code and low-code software development and professional code development. Together, these tools support customers develop and deploy solutions at unprecedented speeds.
With Agentforce’s low-code Agent Builder, Secret escapes the team managed to build, test and launch a customer support agent in just two weeks compared to the six months it previously took the company to build and train the bot.
Thanks Agentforce, 1-800Accountant Resolved 70% of customer chat calls on their own during fiscal week 2025, without writing a line of code, using Salesforce’s low-code tools and AI assistance. Meanwhile, a media company Globus Group we have implemented agents that identify subscribers at risk of contract expiration, offer personalized updates, cross-sell and convert non-subscribers. As a result, Agentforce increased Globo’s retention rates by 22% in less than three months.
Innovation meets discipline
Enterprise tools show that disciplined engineering and original experimentation can coexist — and this balance, Shrivastava argues, is the key to sustainable innovation.
“Vibe coding is not a fad, but it is also not a silver bullet that will replace disciplined software engineering,” says Shrivastava. “The Intelligent Pathway is a hybrid approach where human software skills are complemented by agentic intelligence. This balanced approach allows you to get the best of both worlds: radical innovation at the edge and unwavering stability at the core.”
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