The term Vibe Coding was popularized by Andrej Karpathy¹ to describe a conversational, high-level way of programming with AI models, where you specify the intent, style, or 'vibe' of what you want and let the model draft most of the implementation details of a Web app.

No code, just words.

At Being Guided, Vibe Coding is the third of five interrelated elements of digital innovation: Think; Simplify; Vibe; Build, and Sell.

As illustrated above, Vibe Coding here is powered by Salesforce or Microsoft technology. This is driven by Design Thinking based on the Stanford d.school² method. It is five iterative stages to create a solid Think foundation for digital innovation. See Journal post: Think.

As readers probably know, there are a bewildering number of startups that have entered the Vibe Coding marketspace: Base44⁸, Bolt⁹ and Lovable¹⁰, among many. In turn, these new startup challengers, although in receipt of significant funding valuations (Lovable valued at $6billion¹¹), rely on Supabase¹² as their infrastructure.

At the time of writing this Journal post (January 9, 2026), I have prioritised Vibe Coding on the platforms delivered by the global market leaders: Salesforce and Microsoft. This is due to a limitation with Vibe Coding startups, where their 'Stochastic Models' exhibit the inconsistency of Large Language Models (LLMs). Although these tools work well as Prototypes, they need a further 'Optimisation' step to become Production-ready 'Deterministic Models^{13, 14, 15}.

Salesforce and Microsoft have both combined a broader set of technologies with their mature infrastructures to enable a successful transition from Vibe Coding a Prototype to Optimising the Web apps in a Build phase for secure, scalable Production outcomes.

Build.

The Build process takes a Vibed Coded Prototype and turn this into a Production class Web app on either Salesforce or Microsoft technology.

Salesforce Vibe.

With Salesforce, Vibe Coding is offered on both Salesforce Lightning Platform (Vibe Codey) and on Heroku (Heroku Vibes), both providing the high-level intent and natural language description, as the AI handles the technical boilerplate (scaffolding, metadata, and code).

Vibe Codey.
This is the autonomous coding agent within the Agentforce Vibes platform. It acts as a pair programmer that understands your specific Salesforce metadata. If you describe a workflow, Vibe Codey generates the Apex classes, Lightning Web Components, and tests while adhering to your Salesforce Org existing security guardrails.

Heroku Vibes.
This extends vibe coding to the broader app ecosystem. It allows developers to describe an entire application's requirements in plain language, which Heroku then auto-provisions—creating the database, setting up the runtime, and deploying the app without the developer manually configuring the infrastructure.

Microsoft Vibe.

Organisations that have extensive investments in Microsoft technology will find Vibe Coding with Power Apps⁵ attractive. At Being Guided we are creating CRM Prototypes with Power Apps, AI Builder⁶ and Dataverse⁷.

For a modern Web app, Microsoft Vibe has three pillars functioning as a single, cohesive unit:

Dataverse (The Foundation).
It is not just a database; it is a smart data service. It stores the tables, logic, and security rules that the application relies on. When you Vibe Code, using natural language to build, Dataverse automatically structures the metadata based on your prompts.

AI Builder (The Brain).
This component adds 'intelligence' to the Web app. It can extract text from documents, predict outcomes, or categorise sentiments. In Vibe Coding, AI Builder models are often invoked as functions directly within the app's logic.

Power Apps (The Canvas).
This is where the user interacts with the Web app. It consumes the data from Dataverse and triggers the AI models from AI Builder. Through Copilot, Power Apps allows developers to describe a UI and it automatically binds the UI to the underlying Dataverse tables.

References

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2. The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. (2004) Stanford d.school. https://dschool.stanford.edu/about
3. Kilpatrick, L. (2025, November 18). Start building with Gemini 3. Google. https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-3-developers/
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5. Microsoft. (2025, June 24). Embedding AI in Power Apps: Advanced customization. https://www.alphabold.com/ai-integration-in-power-apps-for-enhanced-decision-making/
6. Microsoft. (2025, August 14). AI Builder documentation. Microsoft Learn. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ai-builder/
7. Microsoft. (2026, January 9). What is Microsoft Dataverse? Microsoft Learn. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/data-platform/data-platform-intro
8. Base44. (2025, November 3). A simple guide to how it works. Base44 Blog.
   https://base44.com/blog/vibe-coding
9. StackBlitz, Inc. (2025, October 2). The vibe coding revolution enters its next phase: Introducing Bolt v2. Bolt Blog.
   https://bolt.new/blog/bolt-v2
10. Lovable. (2025, December 4). GPT Engineer and Lovable: The evolution. https://lovable.dev/gpt-engineer
11. Hope, G. (2025, December 22). AI coding startup Lovable now valued at $6.6B. AI Business. https://aibusiness.com/generative-ai/ai-coding-startup-lovable-series-b
12. Supabase. (2026, January 9). Database: Getting started with PostgreSQL. Supabase Docs. https://supabase.com/docs/guides/database/overview
13. AICerts. (2025, December 26). Salesforce deterministic AI pivot boosts Agentforce reliability. AI CERTs News.
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14. GitGuardian. (2025, June 16). Prevent vibe coding security vulnerabilities with automated guardrails. GitGuardian Blog.
    https://blog.gitguardian.com/automated-guard-rails-for-vibe-coding/
15. Microsoft Learn. Sarkar, A., & Drosos, I. (2025, November 13). Vibe coding and other ways AI is changing who can build apps and how. Microsoft Source. https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/vibe-coding-and-other-ways-ai-is-changing-who-can-build-apps-and-how/