Vibe Coding in the Enterprise: Opportunities, Limitations, and Legal Caution
Vibe coding—using AI to generate software with minimal input—offers speed and flexibility for greenfield enterprise projects but raises legal, architectural, and operational risks in complex or regulated domains. This article explores when to use vibe coding, where it falls short, and how to implement it responsibly to accelerate innovation without exposing your organization to compliance or IP issues.
Brandon Wilburn
4 min read•May 05, 2025
The age of “vibe coding”—a colloquial term describing the act of using large language models (LLMs) and AI-driven code assistants to rapidly scaffold or write code based on high-level prompts or abstract requirements—is here. While meme-worthy and attractive for greenfield prototyping, vibe coding is far more nuanced when viewed through the lens of enterprise application delivery. This article explores what vibe coding is, when it’s appropriate, how to mitigate legal and IP risks, and the architectural knowledge required to responsibly leverage it in business environments.
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As a technology and business thought leader, Brandon Wilburn is currently the Chief Architect at Spirent Communications leading the Lifecycle Service Assurance business unit. He provides vision and drives the company's strategic initiates through customer and vendor engagements, value stream product deliveries, multi-national reorganization, cross-vertical engineering efficiencies, business development, and Innovation Lab creation.
Brandon works with CEOs, CTOs, GMs, R&D VPs, and other leaders to achieve successful business outcomes for multinational organizations in highly technical and challenging domains. He provides direct counsel to executives on markets, strategy, acquisitions, and execution.
With an effortless communication style that transcends engineering, technology, and marketing, Brandon is adept at engaging marquee customers, quickly building relationships, creating strategic alignment, and delivering customer value.
He has generated new multi-national R&D Innovation Lab organization from inception to scaled delivery, ultimately 70 resources strong with a 5mil annual budget, leveraging FTEs and consulting talent from United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Poland, Lithuania, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, and India all delivering new products together successfully. He directed and fostered the latest in best practices in organization structure, methodology, and engineering for products and platforms.
Brandon believes strongly in an organization's culture, organizing internal and external events such as Hackathons and Demo Days to support and propagate a positive the engineering community.