From Vibe Coding to Vibe Engineering

Two talks on what AI coding can do today—when you’re not a programmer, and when you actually know what you’re doing.

From Vibe Coding to Vibe Engineering
A practical evening about AI coding tools, agentic platforms, iteration loops, and skills that actually matter.

“Vibe coding” is often sold as a magic wand: the idea that you can build anything with AI, even if you haven’t the slightest idea what you’re doing.

But what happens when people with deep experience bring those same tools into disciplined engineering workflows?

That’s where vibe engineering begins.

On February 12 at 19:00, the Museum of Artificial Intelligence (MAI) is hosting a seminar exploring these two worlds.

Speaker 1: Greg FitzPatrick

(MAI Director and not-really-a-programmer)

Greg will present several of the museum’s vibe coding projects and discuss what we’re learning from building with AI today: the cool stuff, the headaches, the successes, and the failures.

Topics include:

• What vibe coding is (and isn’t)
• The tools available to us (many are free)
• What “agents” and AI coworkers actually are

Speaker 2: Emil Stenström

(Head of AI Product at Odevo)

Emil will present his recent work on JustHTML, where he delegated most coding tasks to AI so he could focus on planning, architecture, and iterating against tests.

About the speakers

Emil Stenström is a Stockholm-based engineer and product leader with more than 25 years of experience in web technologies. He is Head of AI Product at Odevo and was previously co-founder and long-time product lead at the Swedish SaaS company Kundo. Emil holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science from KTH and has a long history of hands-on work spanning engineering, UX, and web standards.

Greg FitzPatrick is an inventor, musician, artist, director of the Museum of Artificial Intelligence, and the author of our Substack posts.