A while ago I had predicted that eventually all coding would eventually become vibe-coding but it would still be a deep engineering discipline (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040206) -- this is what I meant. Deep technical expertise is still needed, but it shifts from working with the code directly to crafting bespoke comprehensive validation mechanisms around the code. This is a great example of what that could look like.

So it's technically vibe-coding in the sense you don't really look at the code, you just look at the results and "go by the vibes"... except now you're working to rigorously quantify and enforce those vibes. (Philosophical aside: once vibes are rigorously enforced are they "vibes" anymore?)