✨What is Vibe Engineering?
- Sharaf Goussous
- Aug 24
- 2 min read
Updated: Aug 25
Are we going to see job ads like this one appearing soon? At XponixAI, we believe the answer is yes. At XponixAI, we’ve been exploring how technology shapes not just what people do, but how they feel while doing it. Enter "vibe engineering": the practice of intentionally coding for emotion, atmosphere, and resonance.
Vibe engineering is a proposed evolution beyond vibe coding, where developers use natural language and AI assistants to generate code, but with a more structured, intentional, and skilled approach than casual prompting. It recognises that creating meaningful digital experiences requires more than automation. It requires discipline, design thinking, and empathy built into the process. In traditional engineering, the goal is functionality. In vibe engineering, the goal is experience. It’s about asking: - Does this tool empower or frustrate?
- Does this process feel human, fair, and clear?
- Does this interaction create confidence, or confusion?
⏳Why Now?
Generative AI has made it possible for products to carry personality and mood. Chatbots can be warm or transactional. Learning platforms can feel inspiring or mechanical. Workplace apps can energise or exhaust.
📱Applications in Practice 🔵Education: Imagine an AI tutor helping a student prepare for a maths exam. Instead of just providing the correct solution, the tutor senses when the student is anxious, offers encouragement in plain, supportive language, and adjusts the pace of learning. The goal is not just knowledge transfer, but confidence building, to tune a stressful revision session into a motivating experience.
🔵App Development: Consider a health and wellness app. Traditional coding ensures the app tracks steps and calories. Vibe engineering ensures the app congratulates users with uplifting micro-interactions, calming colour schemes, and empathetic nudges when progress slows. Instead of feeling judged or pressured, users feel supported and motivated, increasing long-term engagement. 🚀The Future of Work
In the coming years, vibe engineering could become a discipline as critical as UX or data science. Organisations that invest in it will not just deliver solutions, but shape the atmosphere in which people experience those solutions.
At XponixAI, we believe that the future of AI-powered products depends not only on intelligence and efficiency, but on the vibes they create. The next competitive advantage won’t just be what your technology does, it will be how it feels. 👩💻Would you apply for a role like “Vibe Engineer”? Or do you think vibe engineering will become a core part of every tech team in the future?
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