“Most companies, including ours, are still learning where work actually happens versus where they think it happens,” Noe Ramos, vice president of AI operations at Agiloft, told Violino. “Before you can extend AI into a business function, you have to understand the real workflow, not the documented one. That discovery work is underestimated almost everywhere.”

All told, vibe coding enterprise apps remains tricky business, as CIO.com’s Grant Gross writes. And CIOs should beware business users falling prey to the “seduction phase,” Geoff Burke, senior technology advisor at ransomware defense vendor Object First, told Gross.

“At first, it feels like a brilliant partner,” he explained. “But give it too much autonomy and it injects inaccuracies, complexity, and bypasses security norms, which you will spend twice as long cleaning up later.”