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Five Things Vibe Coding Forgets And Why They'll Cost You Later

Custom enterprise software has long meant high cost, slow rollouts, and vendor lock-in. AI code generators promise speed but only produce functional prototypes, not systems built for enterprise-grade security and data integrity. VCola closes that gap.

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July 2, 2026

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Kashif Qayyum

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July 13, 2026

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From Custom Code to Intent-Driven AI: Transforming the Modern Enterprise

Redefining enterprise software with AI architecture. This specification-driven approach eliminates organizational inertia, enabling businesses to deploy agile, agentic applications that evolve alongside their changing objectives.

Five Things Vibe Coding Forgets And Why They'll Cost You Later

Upgrading our VCola Payroll application in production

A look at how we built out the machinery to automate the upgrade of a meaningful set of changes to VCola's live Irish payroll system. We also touch on why the VCola platform makes this kind of upgrade to generated software more manageable than it sounds

How We Built Irish Payroll with VCola Studio in One Month

We set ourselves a forcing function in April 2026: build an Irish payroll system on VCola and pay the team by 25 May, or no one got paid. A month later we processed our first payroll - filed electronically with Revenue, built by a non-payroll expert

Custom By Design

Custom Implementation has been incredibily costly, until now. No two businesses are the same. Embrace customisation!

The Case Against Vibe Coding in Enterprise Software

Vibe coding tools are genuinely impressive. They are also genuinely dangerous in enterprise contexts. Here is exactly why — and what the alternative looks like.

Agentic ERP Whitepaper

Autonomous agents are not a feature you add to an ERP system. They are an architectural property of how the system is designed. This whitepaper explains why — and what agentic ERP looks like in practice.

What Should an ERP System Look Like in the AI Era?

We started with a blank sheet of paper and one question: what should an ERP system look like in the AI era? The answer is the opposite of everything SaaS taught us.

Inverting SaaS!

SaaS promised to simplify enterprise software. What it actually delivered was a configuration bill worth millions. AI is now inverting that model entirely — and the implications for ERP are profound.

David Clarke

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