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Vibcoding—the fast-growing trend of using generative AI to spin code from simple language prompts—is great for instant, creative, and quick prototyping. But many argue that it doesn’t cut it for building production-ready business apps with the security, governance, and reliability infrastructure that enterprises need. In other words, a few hours saved in development could mean a future filled with security vulnerabilities, endless maintenance, and scalability headaches, says Mohit Shrivastava, principal developer advocate at Salesforce.
"Vibcoding is a game changer for rapid experimentation, building minimal viable products, and tackling creative challenges." Shrivastava says. "However, that very speed and improvisational nature is exactly what makes its application in a professional, enterprise a subject of intense debate. And the skepticism from the developer community is 100% justified."
Risks and Rewards of Web Coding
Excitement is all about speed: going from a somewhat rough idea to a working prototype in hours, not weeks, is a huge advantage. But as Shrivastava shared, developers are vocal about the potential downside.
"When you apply coding indiscriminately to the entire application stack, you’re just not moving fast. You are accumulating risk at an extraordinary rate," Shrivastava explained. "The cons are significant."
This also includes potential security nightmares, as AI models typically don’t take into account company-specific security policies. They can easily introduce vulnerabilities such as using hard-coded secrets or insecure, deceptive packages. Then there is the problem of Shrivastava’s calls "Spaghetti cod on steroids," Or verbose code that lacks coherent architectural patterns, creating a mountain of technical debt.
Equally is the illusion of progress: Webcoding can complete 80% of a feature in record time, but the other 20%—edge cases, performance tuning, and compliance work—is increasingly difficult.
But does that mean Vibcoding has no place in the enterprise?
"The idea that you can just build your way to a complex, secure and maintainable enterprise application is a dangerous fantasy." Shrivastava says. "But – if used correctly, the pros are undeniable. The key is not to avoid webcoding, but to apply it intelligently to your enterprise."
Red and Green Zones: Enterprise-Grade Web Coding
Shrivastava cautions that you can’t code your entire enterprise stack with just a generic tool, and you absolutely shouldn’t. But when paired with less, less, or code pro tools designed for the enterprise, many of the gaps can be bridged. For example, an enterprise-grade ViB coding solution can automatically scan for security issues, flag performance bottlenecks, and provide safety nets.
It’s also important to understand which parts of an application fit this approach—and which demand a higher level of trust and control. Shrivastava divides the stack into red and green zones for clarity.
The green zone is the presentation layer, or UI and UX. It’s ideal for Vibe coding, where developers can move quickly and iterate quickly without much risk. In contrast is the red zone, which covers the core pillars of an application, including the business logic and data layers.
Empowerment of developers in green zone
Developer expertise remains the foundation of efficient and secure Vibcoding. But developers can be augmented by AI tools and emerging agents that are grounded in business contexts, connected to real applications, integrations and data flows.
"A typical AI agent may not understand your company’s unique processes, but a context-aware tool can act as a powerful pair of programmers, helping developers draft complex logic or model data with greater speed and accuracy." Shrivastava says. "It’s about making the expert developer more efficient, not trying to do their job for them."
In some areas, unregulated AI will always pose a greater risk – particularly to infrastructure and security. Letting common AI agent firewalls or identity and access management (IAM) policies be configured without oversight is a recipe for disaster, warns Shrivastava. The solution is not to avoid the red zone altogether, but to approach it with the right tools – those that embed governance, security and context from the ground up.
"The winning strategy is clear: code the green zone for agility, approach the red zone by augmenting your developers with powerful, context-aware tools, and never, ever DIY your core infrastructure with AI." He says.
Embracing the Enterprise Vibe Coding
To harness the power of Enterprise Vibe coding, Salesforce evolved Agent Force Webs. This new VibCoding offering for the enterprise includes AgentForce, an autonomous AI agent built to collaborate like a pair of programmers on the Salesforce platform. It is specifically designed to provide developers with the right tools for the job, covering both green and red regions. For Green Zone, it offers speed and agility to rapidly build UIS and prototypes. But its real power lies in how it pushes developers into the red zone.
"Enterprise Vibe Coding, like AgentForce, allows organizations to accelerate coding, testing and deployment, ensuring consistency, security and efficiency, at the enterprise level." Dan Fernandez, VP of Product, Developer Services at Salesforce. "It’s not about throwing away governance for speed. It’s about integrating AI to work better at every stage of the application lifecycle."
Because Agent Force Webs’ tooling is deeply integrated with your business context on the platform, it can securely support business logic and data modeling. Most importantly, it works on a reliable platform. Instead of a DIY approach—jury-rigging a generic AI agent to handle their networking—developers build a foundation into which security and governance are built, so they can innovate safely, knowing that the most critical layers of the stack are secure and compliant.
Big enterprises are putting vibe coding to work
According to Salesforce data, AgentForcewebs customers are now tapping the tool to build 20 to 25% of their new code base, and customers are accepting about 1.2 million lines of agent code per month. This includes companies such as Coinbase, CGI, Grupo Globo, and one of America’s top five banks, which are using AgentForceWeb’s capabilities to rapidly develop production-ready apps.
AgentForce Webs is part of a suite of tools in AgentForce 360 that spans from No Code and Low Code to Code Pro development. Together, these tools are helping users develop and deploy in ways unheard of before.
With the low-code Agent Builder in AgentForce, Secret Escape The team was able to build, test and launch their customer service support agent in just two weeks, compared to what it had previously taken the company to build and train the bot.
With Agent Force, 1-800 Accountant Autonomously resolved 70 percent of customer chat engagements during tax week in 2025, using Salesforce’s low-code tools and AI assistance. Meanwhile, the media company Grupo Globo Deploy agents to identify customers at risk of adoption, personalize upgrades, cross-sell, and convert non-subscribers. As a result, AgentForce increased Globo’s retention rates by 22% in less than three months.
Innovation comes with discipline
Enterprise Tools shows that disciplined engineering and creative experimentation can coexist—and that balance, says Shrivastava, is the key to lasting innovation.
"Webcoding isn’t a fad, but it’s also not a silver bullet that will replace disciplined software engineering." Shrivastava says. "Smart Path Forward is a hybrid approach where human software expertise is augmented with agent 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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