Vibe coding is Topgolf. Production is Torrey Pines.
Executive Take
A slick AI demo is not a production system. Leaders who skip architecture, security, and ownership reviews will pay for it later in outages, breaches, or unmanaged costs.
Executive Summary
A CIO/CTO op-ed argues vibe coding, building apps via AI prompts, makes prototyping easy like Topgolf but production deployment remains as demanding as a championship golf course. The piece proposes a production-readiness scorecard covering architecture, data governance, security, scale, and clear business ownership before promoting AI-built apps live.
Why It Matters
Technology and business leaders both need this because vibe coding is spreading app creation beyond engineering teams fast. Without risk-based governance, that speed turns into hidden security and data exposure at scale.
Bizquad Perspective
Most leaders will treat this as an IT gatekeeping problem, but the real gap is that business owners who build the app rarely accept ongoing accountability for running it.