FEATURE: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
VIBE CODING WORKS AT ENTERPRISE SCALE ONLY WHEN WE PAIR‘ NATURAL LANGUAGE IN’ WITH SPEC- FIRST DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN HARDENING AND GOVERNANCE GATES THAT DEMAND TESTS, PRIVACY CHECKS AND POLICY AS CODE BEFORE ANYTHING EARNS PRODUCTION.
stage is sandboxed, with no access to production data or credentials.
3. Human Hardening » Review, test and refine. Developers take over, performing code review and mandatory test runs. The AI Acceptance
Rate – how many AI suggestions survive review – averages 25 – 35 %. Automated test suites and static analysers catch errors and vulnerabilities.
4. Governance Gates » Automate the policy checks. Before merging or deployment, policy-ascode gates ensure compliance:
• Quality gate – no critical findings; all unit tests pass at 90 % or more.
• Security gate – no OWASP Top 10 LLM risks or high-severity vulnerabilities.
• Privacy gate – scans for secrets or personal data; applies compliance tags.
• Dependency gate – SBOM checks confirm approved libraries with no CVEs. The pipeline uses automated gating tools to enforce these conditions objectively.
5. Deploy & Observe » Release with guardrails. Initial deployments occur in contained environments. Enhanced logging and feature flags allow monitoring of behaviour and quick rollback. Any anomalies trigger alerts and review. Observability is non-negotiable, lessons from production feed back into earlier stages for continuous improvement.
Through these five stage – Intent » AI draft » Human hardening » Automated gates » Monitored deploy – organisations achieve both speed and stability.
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