Vibe coding requirements tracking: from vibe coding to knowing what you actually wanted

Vibe Coding Requirements Tracking: Stop the Drift and Know What You Actually Wanted

Vibe coding lets you ship software by describing what you want in plain language, but the real failure isn’t bad code — it’s requirement drift. You start with a clear intent, and within a few long sessions the goal quietly buries itself under debugging noise, and neither the model nor you can reconstruct what you actually wanted. A requirement ledger — a versioned record of intent, constraints, and decisions kept in the repository — externalizes that memory and keeps every new session anchored to the original purpose. ...

September 25, 2026 · 14 min · baeseokjae