// Hacker Noon · 5 March 2026

Vibe Coding vs Specs: The Missing Middle

Vibe coding is too reactive. Spec Driven Development is too heavy. I tried to find the middle ground by letting GPT-5.3 Codex plan its own architecture before writing code — and it mostly worked, but nobody has a name for this approach yet.

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