From prototype to production: What vibe coding tools must fix for enterprise adoption
Presented by Salesforce
Vibe coding – the fast-growing trend of using generative AI to extract code from simple language prompts – is fast, creative, and ideal for instant prototyping. But many argue that building production-ready business apps with the security, management, and trusted infrastructure that businesses need isn’t the right choice. In other words, a few development hours saved could mean a future full of security vulnerabilities, endless maintenance, and scalability issues, says Mohith Shrivastava, lead developer at Salesforce.
“For rapid experimentation, building minimum viable products and tackling creative challenges, vibe coding is a game-changer,” says Shrivastava. “However, that same speed and improvisational nature are exactly what makes its application in a professional, business environment the subject of intense debate. And the developer community’s skepticism is 100% justified.”
Risks and benefits of vibe coding
The excitement is all about speed: going from a rough idea to a working prototype in hours, not weeks, is a huge advantage. But as Shrivastava shared, developers have been vocal about the potential downsides.
“When you apply vibe coding indiscriminately to an entire application stack, you’re not just moving forward quickly; you’re building risk at an unprecedented rate,” Shrivastava explains. “The disadvantages are significant.”
That includes potential security nightmares, because AI models typically don’t take into account the company’s specific security policies. They can easily introduce vulnerabilities such as hardcoded secrets, or use unsafe, hallucinogenic packages. Then there’s the issue of what Shrivastava calls “spaghetti code on steroids,” or verbose code that has no coherent architectural pattern, creating a mountain of technical debt.
Equally worrying is the illusion of progress: vibe coding can complete 80% of a function in record time, but the remaining 20% (the edge cases, performance tuning, and compliance work) becomes exponentially more difficult.
But does this mean that atmospheric coding has no place in the company?
“The idea that you can just find your way to a complex, secure and maintainable business application is a dangerous fantasy,” says Shrivastava. “But the benefits are undeniable when used correctly. The key is not to avoid vibe coding, but to apply it intelligently in your enterprise.”
Red and green zones: atmospheric coding at company level
You absolutely cannot and should not code your entire enterprise stack with just any generic tool, Shrivastava warns. But when combined with no-, low- or pro-code tools built for the enterprise, many of the gaps can be addressed. For example, an enterprise-grade Vibe encryption solution can automatically scan for security vulnerabilities, identify performance bottlenecks, and provide a safety net.
It’s also critical to understand which parts of an application fit this approach, and which require a higher level of trust and control. Shrivastava divides the pile into red and green zones for illustration.
The green zone is the presentation layer, or the UI and UX. It’s ideal for vibe coding, where developers can move quickly and iterate quickly without much risk. In contrast, there is the red zone, which encompasses the fundamental pillars of an application, including business logic and data layers.
Empowering developers in the green zone
Developer expertise remains the foundation for effective and secure vibe coding. But developers can be empowered by AI tools and emerging agents that are grounded in the business context and connected to real applications, integrations and data flows.
“A generic AI agent cannot grasp your company’s unique processes, but a context-aware tool can act as a powerful pair programmer, helping a developer build complex logic or model data with greater speed and accuracy,” says Shrivastava. “It’s about making the expert developer more efficient, not about doing his job for him.”
Some areas will always be high risk for unmanaged AI, especially infrastructure and security. Have a generic AI agent configure firewalls or identity and access management [IAM] An unsupervised policy, Shrivastava warns, is a recipe for disaster. The solution is not to avoid the red zone entirely, but to approach it with the right tools, which anchor governance, security and context from the ground up.
“The winning strategy is clear: Vibe codes the green zone for flexibility, approaches the red zone by augmenting your developers with powerful, context-aware tools, and never, ever build your core infrastructure with AI,” he says.
Embracing enterprise coding
To harness the power of enterprise vibe coding, Salesforce has developed Agentforce vibes. This new enterprise vibe coding offering includes Agentforce, an autonomous AI agent built to work together as a pair programmer on the Salesforce Platform. It is precisely designed to provide developers with the right tools for the job, covering both the green and red zones. For the green zone, it provides the speed and flexibility to quickly build user interfaces and prototypes. But its real power lies in the way it increases developers in the red zone.
“Enterprise vibe coding like Agentforce enables organizations to bring AI-assisted development to the organizational level, accelerating coding, testing and deployment while ensuring consistency, security and performance,” said Dan Fernandez, VP product, developer services at Salesforce. “It’s not about ditching governance for speed; it’s about integrating AI into every stage of the application lifecycle to work smarter.”
Because Agentforce Vibes tools are deeply integrated with your business context on the platform, they can securely assist with business logic and data modeling. Most importantly, it works on a trusted platform. Instead of a do-it-yourself approach – jury-rigging a generic AI agent to handle your networks – developers build on a foundation that has security and governance built in, so they can innovate safely, knowing that the most critical layers of the stack are secure and compliant.
Major corporations are putting vibe coding to work
According to data from Salesforce, Agentforce Vibes users are now using the tool to build about 20 to 25% of their new code base, and users are accepting about 1.2 million lines of agent code per month. This includes companies like Coinbase, CGI, Grupo Globo and one of the five largest banks in the US, which uses Agentforce Vibes capabilities to develop production-ready apps faster.
Agentforce Vibes is part of a suite of tools in Agentforce 360 that span from no-code and low-code to pro-code development. Together, these tools help customers develop and deploy at speeds previously unheard of.
With the low-code Agent Builder in Agentforce, the Secret escapes team was able to build, test and launch their customer service support agent in just two weeks, compared to the six months it had previously taken the company to build and train a bot.
With Agentforce, 1-800Accountant resolved 70% of customer chat conversations autonomously during tax week 2025, without writing a line of code, using Salesforce’s low-code tools and AI support. Meanwhile media company Group Globo agents deployed to identify subscribers at risk of lapsing, offer personalized upgrades, cross-sell and convert non-subscribers. As a result, Agentforce increased Globo’s retention rates by 22% in less than three months.
Innovation meets discipline
Enterprise tools show that disciplined engineering and creative experimentation can coexist – and that balance, says Shrivastava, is the key to sustainable innovation.
“Vibe coding isn’t a fad, but it’s also not a silver bullet that will replace disciplined software engineering,” says Shrivastava. “The smart path forward is a hybrid approach where human software skills are complemented by agentic intelligence. This balanced approach is how you get the best of both worlds: radical innovation at the edge and unwavering stability at the core.”
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