It's too vibe-y: too much vibe not enough quality
08 May 2026
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Gary Hawkes
TWiQ — This Week in Quality
It's too vibe-y: too much vibe not enough quality
I over heard this today on TWiQ from Gary Hawkes.
It's a quality risk when something you are building comes across as being too vibe coded and we should find confidence in speaking up and highlighting the quality problems that will most likely arise as a result.
Maybe we should be paying close attention to the processes and how things are built and learn to ask good questions around it.
I over heard this today on TWiQ from Gary Hawkes.
It's a quality risk when something you are building comes across as being too vibe coded and we should find confidence in speaking up and highlighting the quality problems that will most likely arise as a result.
Maybe we should be paying close attention to the processes and how things are built and learn to ask good questions around it.
- Definitional: What does "too vibe coded" actually look like in practice? What are the signals?
- Threshold: Is there a version of vibe coding that's acceptable, or is the concern about the overall direction it's taking?
- Speaking up: Who is responsible for raising quality concerns, and what makes it hard to do so right now?
- Process: Which specific processes matter most when vibe coding is in the mix? Testing, review, deployment?
- Confidence: What would give testers and quality engineers more confidence to push back on vibe-coded work?
- Framing: Is this a people problem, a tooling problem, or a culture problem?
- Outcome: What does "quality" actually mean in a vibe-coded context? Are the usual measures still valid?
Rosie Sherry
CEO & Founder at Ministry of Testing
She/Her
I've been working in the software testing and quality engineering space since the year 2000 whilst also combining it with my love for education and community. It turns out quality, community and education go nicely hand in hand.
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