Glossary

Vibe-Engineering

Vibe-Engineering is vibe coding with the discipline of real engineering kept intact: you build at the speed of plain-language prompting, but every decision is captured with its reasoning, every change is validated before it lands, and the “why” behind the code is never lost.

Where it shows up

It names the discipline CatWrangler adds to vibe coding: the speed stays, but the decisions, validation, and reasoning that real software needs come along for the ride. It’s how a prototype becomes a product instead of technical debt with a login screen.

This definition is reused verbatim everywhere the term appears.