Don’t Vibe Code in Between Sets, aka how businesses should implement AI now.

A gym in San Francisco is telling people not to vibe code between sets.

Fair enough. I’ve given my agents tasks at the gym, at the cinema, during conferences, on public transport, and while sitting in a parked car.

Assign a task. Get on with your day. Review the result. Decide what happens next.

The work no longer has to wait until I’m back at my desk.

But this is becoming more interesting than finding a dinner recipe or choosing a restaurant.

Consider an incoming quote request. An agent reads the email and attachments. Extracts the relevant details from a technical drawing. Flags missing information. Requests supplier quotes. Prepares a comparison and a draft budget.

A person reviews. Clarifies. Approves.

The same logic applies to analyses, mockups, orders, and plenty of other operational work. Not necessarily without human involvement. But without a human having to start from scratch every time.

BUT!

If prices live in one spreadsheet, product knowledge lives in someone’s head, and finding an order’s actual status takes three phone calls, another AI subscription won’t fix it.

An agent doesn’t automatically turn a messy process into a good one. It might just create more confusion, faster.

First, understand how the work actually happens. Which data it needs. Who makes the decisions. Where human approval is required.

Then make your product or service information machine-readable. Correct prices. Correct variants. Correct availability. Not three competing versions of the truth.

For me, this is the more important shift.

Competing internationally will take more than teaching employees to write better prompts. It means reviewing how work moves through the business.

If a competitor can send more quotes, get orders into production faster and spend less time chasing information, that’s a real operational advantage. Not just newer software.

Fortunately, there’s an upside for employees too.

Too many digitalisation projects meant a new CRM, training sessions, and another set of menus to memorise. Once the project ended, the actual work stayed in Excel.

With the right integrations and controls, employees can increasingly describe what they need in plain language. The agent handles the steps across systems and brings the result back for review.

That doesn’t remove the need for good tools, training, or employee involvement. But people shouldn’t have to know which submenu contains the right button just to get their work done.

Less time operating software. More time doing the work it was supposed to support.

So, what about you? Are you resting between sets, or giving your agents their next assignment?