While software developers seem to have wholly adopted AI coding assistants, the business side of organizations — the C-suite and other executives high up in the chain of command — is adopting these tools to “vibe code” a variety of agents and productivity applications.
“I was tired of explaining it to somebody who was supposed to build it for me,” Woodson Martin, CEO of OutSystems, tells The New Stack‘s Darryl K. Taft. “I was just like, ‘I’ll do this myself.'”
Andrew Cornwall, an analyst at Forrester, tells The New Stack that non-technical executives are building significant web apps, but also catalogs the risks: Vibe-coded apps are typically not hardened against attacks, often lack controls that satisfy auditors, and frequently get dumped on CIOs or CTOs without budgets or maintenance plans. In the worst cases, an executive uses an unapproved AI provider and leaks corporate data.
“If vibe coders and their users understand the limitations of their apps, they’re not riskier than the spreadsheets they built in the past,” Cornwall says. The harder problem, he notes, is that a polished-looking app may obscure whether it’s professionally supported or something held together with prompts.
Go deeper: “I was tired of explaining it to somebody who was supposed to build it for me”: Meet the executives vibe-coding their own tools.
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