Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
The short version QA is the missing half of vibe coding. A systematic review of 101 practitioner sources, presented at ICSE 2026, found quality assurance is the most frequently overlooked dimension of AI-assisted coding — many builders skip testing entirely or delegate the checking back to the model that wrote the code. Demos and products fail under different conditions. A demo runs one user down the happy path on your machine. A product survives bad inputs, concurrency, cheap Android phones and next-week persistence. AI-generated code is optimised for the first and silent about the second. There is a ladder, and you can climb it. Autonoma's five-level Vibe Coding Maturity Model runs from Level 1 (no QA at all) to Level 5 (fully automated QA on every deployment). Level 3 is the minimum…
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