Shift-Up Framework Proposes Software Engineering Guardrails for Vibe Coding and AI-Native Development

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Researchers propose Shift-Up, a design-science framework that defines software engineering guardrails specifically for AI-native development workflows including vibe coding. The framework addresses architectural drift, limited traceability, and reduced maintainability that plague agent-driven implementation, moving beyond the 'shift-left' paradigm. With Karpathy recently declaring vibe coding 'passé' in favor of agentic engineering, this is the first academic attempt to formalize quality gates for the new paradigm.