But some challenge whether vibe coding can produce sophisticated, scalable, and secure enterprise-ready applications.
“Vibe coding is ideal for prototyping, exploratory work, and early-stage design,” says Michael Berthold, CEO and founder of KNIME. “However, its strengths are also its limits, and it rarely produces predictable, reproducible, or explainable systems, which makes debugging often impossible. When deployed, vibe-coded systems can produce edge-case failures that vibe-coded tests didn’t find, and this also means that those systems can contain security holes. Since those systems often can’t be audited clearly, they shouldn’t be trusted in production or safety-critical contexts.”
Base44, Cursor, Replit, and other vibe coding tools target different development personas and technical skills. Beyond prompts, they offer different developer experiences, features, and tools. The disparity in capabilities can make it challenging for developers working in regulated industries, with development and infrastructure standards, to do more than prototype.
