22-25 April 2026

Getting Started with Vibe Engineering: Playing with Fire

Proposed session for SQLBits 2026

TL; DR

Vibe engineering is when you take bad vibe coding and apply TDD and DevOps practices to make it manageable. In this session, we'll look at areal-world project for how I extended DAX studio with a visual query plan.

Session Details

Vibe Engineering is when you take a bad practice (vibe coding) and combine it with all of the best practices of large dev teams: Git, automated tests, CI/CD, strong documentation, and so on.

In this course I'll walk you through a real-world project for how I extended DAX studio with a visual query plan. We'll see what can be outsourced to the LLM and what can't.

3 things you'll get out of this session

Define terms like vibe coding and vibe engineering in a useful way Cover tools and techniques to make vibe engineering successful Go over a real-life project and the relevant challenges