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Vibe architecture

This book is 75% completeLast updated on 2026-06-02
Peter Isberg

Vibe coding gives you speed, but Vibe Architecture gives you scale. When syntax is free, structure is your only asset

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Lately, "vibe architecture" has been used as a warning — a mocking label for systems where AI lazily strung components together without a plan. This book flips that definition on its head. Vibe Architecture is the intentional, highly disciplined framework that allows vibe coding to scale without collapsing into a mess.

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Peter Isberg

Peter Isberg is from Sweden with 16+ years professional experience as a software developer. He is a doer and he has mainly been doing things in industries like defense, automotive, online travel and logistics using Java and its landscape

Contents

Table of Contents

  • Preface: Why I Wrote This
  • Table of Contents
  • About This Book

Part I — The Paradox of Speed

  • 1. The Entropy of the Prompt
  • 1b. The Jevons Effect
  • 2. Shift Left, Guide Right
  • 3. Context Diets
  • 3b. From Context Diet to Context Graph

Part II — Engineering the Guardrails

  • 3b. lean-ctx: The Token Economy Runtime
  • 4. Annotation-Driven Design
  • 5. Architectural Unit Testing
  • 6. Visualizing the Vibe
  • 7. Spec-Driven Development: The Spec Is the Guardrail
  • 8. Spec Kit in Practice: From Prompt to Merged Code
  • 9. Kiro: When the IDE Is the Spec Engine
  • 10. Zenflow: The Spec as an Executable DAG
  • 11. Get-Shit-Done: Spec-Driven Plus Context Engineering
  • 11b. When to Switch Off the AI
  • 11c. Vibe Architecture at Org Scale
  • 12. Superpowers: The Portable Workflow
  • 13. Vibe Coding Prompt Template: Thinking Before Building
  • 14. Vibe Coding Playbook: Prompting as Engineering
  • 15. Vibe Kanban: Managing the Human Bottleneck
  • 16. Skill Forge: Skills Forged From Your Own Codebase

Part III — Handling the Hard Stuff

  • Part III: Handling the Hard Stuff
  • 17. The Asynchronous Trap
  • 18. Schema Drift & API Contracts
  • 19. The Untrusted Context: Prompt Injection
  • 19b. VibeKit: Sandbox, Redact, Observe
  • 20. The Attacker Agent: Adversarial Runtime Testing
  • 21. Multi-Agent Orchestration & CI/CD
  • 22. The Two-AI Gripe: Adversarial Review Pipelines
  • 23. Prompt Lineage: Git for Intent
  • 24. Git as a Save-State Engine

Appendix

  • Appendix A — The Lean Context-File Blueprint
  • Appendix B. The Quick-Start Checklist
  • Appendix C. Anti-Patterns
  • Appendix D — Measuring Vibe Architecture
  • Appendix E — AI-Assisted Legacy Modernization
  • Appendix F — CodeKarta: A Spec-Driven Case Study
  • Appendix G: The Vibe Architecture Health Scorecard
  • Appendix H: Platform Coverage Matrix

Back Matter

  • The Zero-Marginal-Cost Baseline: Why Incomplete Software Is Now Laziness
  • Conclusion: The Path Forward
  • Epilogue: The Horizon
  • About the Author
  • Glossary
  • References

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