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📌 MAROKO133 Breaking ai: From prototype to production: What vibe coding tools must

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Vibe coding — the fast-growing trend of using generative AI to spin up code from plain-language prompts — is quick, creative, and great for instant prototypes. But many argue that it's not cut out for building production-ready business apps with the security, governance, and trusted infrastructure that enterprises require. In other words, a few saved hours in development can mean a future full of security vulnerabilities, endless maintenance, and scalability headaches, says Mohith Shrivastava, principal developer advocate at Salesforce.

"For rapid experimentation, building minimum viable products, and tackling creative challenges, vibe coding is a game-changer," Shrivastava says. "However, that same speed and improvisational nature are exactly what makes its application in a professional, enterprise setting a topic of intense debate. And the skepticism from the developer community is 100% justified."

Risks and rewards of vibe coding

The excitement is all about speed: going from a rough idea to a working prototype in hours, not weeks, is a massive 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 fast; you’re accumulating risk at an unprecedented rate," Shrivastava explains. "The cons are significant."

That includes potential security nightmares, as AI models don't typically take into consideration the company's specific security policies. They can easily introduce vulnerabilities like hardcoded secrets or use insecure, hallucinated packages. Then there’s the issue of what Shrivastava calls "spaghetti code on steroids," or verbose code that lacks a coherent architectural pattern, creating a mountain of technical debt.

Equally concerning is the illusion of progress: vibe coding may complete 80% of a feature in record time, but the remaining 20% — the edge cases, performance tuning, and compliance work — becomes exponentially harder.

But does this mean vibe coding has no place in the enterprise?

"The idea that you can just vibe your way to a complex, secure, and maintainable enterprise application is a dangerous fantasy," Shrivastava says. "But — the pros are undeniable if it's used correctly. The key is not to avoid vibe coding, but to apply it intelligently in your enterprise."

Red and green zones: Enterprise-grade vibe coding

You can't, and you absolutely should not, vibe code your entire enterprise stack with just any generic tool, Shrivastava warns. But when paired with no-, low-, or pro-code tools that are built for the enterprise, many of the gaps can be addressed. An enterprise-grade vibe coding solution, for example, can automatically scan for security issues, flag performance bottlenecks, and provide a safety net.

It’s also critical to understand which parts of an application suit this approach — and which demand a higher level of trust and control. Shrivastava divides the stack into red and green zones to illustrate.

The green zone is the presentation layer, or the UI and UX. It’s ideal for vibe coding, where developers can move fast and iterate quickly without much risk. In contrast is the red zone, which covers the foundational pillars of an application, including business logic and data layers.

Empowering developers in the green zone

Developer expertise remains the foundation for effective and safe vibe coding. But developers can be amplified by AI tools and emerging agents that are grounded in business context, connected to real applications, integrations, and data flows.

"A generic AI agent can't grasp your company's unique processes, but a context-aware tool can act as a powerful pair programmer, helping a developer 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."

Some areas will always be high risk for ungoverned AI — especially infrastructure and security. Letting a generic AI agent configure firewalls or Identity and Access Management [IAM] policies without oversight, Shrivastava warns, is a recipe for disaster. The solution isn’t to avoid the red zone entirely, but to approach it with the right tools — ones that embed governance, security, and context from the ground up.

"The winning strategy is clear: Vibe 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 enterprise vibe coding

To harness the power of enterprise vibe coding, Salesforce developed Agentforce Vibes. This new vibe coding offering for the enterprise includes Agentforce, an autonomous AI agent built to collaborate like a pair programmer on the Salesforce Platform. It’s designed precisely to provide developers with the right tools for the job, covering both the green and red zones. For the green zone, it offers the speed and agility to rapidly build UIs and prototypes. But its true power lies in how it augments developers in the red zone.

"Enterprise vibe coding like Agentforce lets organizations take AI-assisted development to the organizational level, accelerating coding, testing, and deployment, while ensuring consistency, security, and performance," says Dan Fernandez, VP of product, developer services at Salesforce. "It's not about throwing away governance for speed; it’s about integrating AI into every stage of the application lifecycle to work smarter."

Because Agentforce Vibes’ tooling is deeply integrated with your business context on the platform, it can safely assist with business logic and data modeling. Most importantly, it operates on a trusted platform. Instead of a DIY approach — jury-rigging a generic AI agent to handle your networking — developers build on a foundation that has security and governance built in, so they can innovate safely, knowing the most critical layers of the stack are secure and compliant.

Major enterprises are putting vibe coding to work

Agentforce Vibes users are now tapping the tool to build around 20 to 25% of their new code base, according to Salesforce data, and users are accepting around 1.2 million lines of agentic code per month. That includes companies like Coinbase, CGI, Grupo Globo, and one of the top five banks in the U.S., which is using 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. These tools are together helping 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 agent to support customer service 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 autonomously resolved 70% of customer chat engagements during tax week in 2025, without writing a line of code, using Salesforce’s low-code tools and AI assistance. Meanwhile, media company <a href="https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/agentforce-data-cloud-customer-use-cases/#:~:text=Media%20company%20Grupo%20Glo…

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🔗 Sumber: venturebeat.com

📌 MAROKO133 Breaking ai: Seaweed-based housings could replace plastic in billions

Lateral flow tests changed the world, but they also created a silent plastic crisis almost no one talks about.

More than 2 billion of these tests are manufactured every year. Most are thrown away within minutes. And each one produces 12.3 grams of plastic waste.

Now, Abingdon Health — a UK-based company— says it may have found a breakthrough that can rewrite the future of diagnostic devices:seaweed-based housings that can replace traditional petroleum plastics without changing the way tests work.

The company has partnered with Symbio Technologies Ltd (SymbioTex), the creators of a patented, compostable, bio-based material made from red seaweed.

And the prototypes already exist, including mid-stream formats used in common pregnancy-test sticks.

Seaweed replaces plastic

Traditional recycling doesn’t work for medical devices. Infection-control rules mean they can’t use recycled plastics, and the multi-material blends in common test housings make them impossible to recycle anyway.

“So we’ve stopped trying to fix plastic. Instead, we’re working on replacing it,” Abingdon says.

This is where red seaweed enters the story. Seaweed grows fast, needs no pesticides, requires no arable land, and thrives in marine environments. SymbioTex’s material uses 100 percent of the feedstock, is fully bio-based, and doesn’t generate harmful by-products when it breaks down.

Even better, the pellets can be processed using standard injection-moulding machines — the same ones manufacturers already use for polystyrene test housings.

That means companies can switch materials without buying new equipment.

Built for real use

Abingdon Health has already moulded seaweed-based housings in two major formats: a) Standard lateral-flow shells, and b) Mid-stream formats used in widely sold pregnancy and fertility kits.

And they’re not lab curiosities.

The company says its early equivalence testing shows comparable stability and shelf-life to traditional plastics.

According to Abingdon, “SymbioTex’s material is compostable.” It does not require industrial composting facilities and fully disintegrates instead of entering landfills.

Abingdon adds that “the material can be processed at lower temperatures,” which reduces energy use during manufacturing. That’s especially important for device makers looking to cut emissions across their production lines.

The company’s facilities can already support annual production volumes in the millions, with scope to scale to over 100 million devices using seaweed-based housings.

A problem too big

Roughly 50 percent of the world’s plastic production goes into single-use items. Healthcare plastics surged by as much as 300 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet less than 10 percent of all plastic waste generated to date has ever been recycled.

The NHS alone distributes more than 60 million inhalers annually, but recycles only 0.5 percent of them.

“The current approach just isn’t sustainable,” Abingdon notes.

By switching to seaweed-based housings, diagnostics manufacturers may finally get a material that works as well as plastic, but breaks down naturally within 8–12 weeks.

For a product that serves its purpose in minutes and then becomes waste, Abingdon argues that this is the first truly practical end-of-life solution.

And if the tech scales globally, millions of pregnancy tests, disease-detection strips, and farm-diagnostic kits could end their decades-long dependence on petroleum plastics.

A small piece of seaweed might just change the future of medical testing.

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com