Vibe Coding for Zero Bureaucracy
- ukrsedo
- 5 minutes ago
- 2 min read
After nearly a year of exercising by creating a dozen procurement workflows in Power Automate, I realised that the name of my game is Vibe Coding.
What happened before: RFx QA Suite in Power Automate
Arguably, one of the most outdated and disorganised processes is the RFx Q&A exchange between procurement, vendors, and internal SME respondents.
To address it, I embarked on the development of a suite of subprocesses with the usual toolkit of ChatGPT, SharePoint, Outlook, and Power Automate, and three calendar weeks after (or, perhaps, 40-50 man-hours) I got this sweet triplet of interconnected subprocesses:
All three formed the following logic:
Other than spending a whole work week on them, I can share a few more KPIs:
Over 200 actions in three subprocesses.
Over 500 flow runs (mainly due to debugging)
An expected time saving during the year of 0.4 FTE.
The video story of the same:
Vibe Coding: The Art of Building Complex Flows That Make Sense
The term vibe coding was introduced by Andrej Karpathy in early 2025 and popularized through IBM’s Think platform. It describes a new kind of programming that relies less on explicit logic and more on intuition, context, and intent — a form of “coding by vibe” where the developer guides AI tools through subtle cues, examples, and patterns rather than rigid instructions.
In Power Automate, vibe coding takes on a tangible form. It’s the practice of designing complex flows not as static sequences of actions but as living systems that reflect how decisions unfold in real operations. You don’t just build a process — you ideate, conduct, and debug it.
A well-vibe-coded flow is recognisable at a glance:
Scopes and variables form a clean visual hierarchy.
Expressions follow conversational logic instead of over-engineering.
Audit trails, routing, and fail-safes are readable like prose.
Don't expect it to be as easy as AI text-to-speech or even prompting. You need to be a Business Analyst, Process Architect, and Debugging Specialist, and gradually steer the development process when ChatGPT starts running sideways or looping endlessly (which isn't always obvious).
Large enterprise automations — with 500+ actions, 9-level nested scopes, and parallel branches — are achievable with Vibe Coding. Despite multiple challenges, which I previously wrote about, you can still manage them with reasonable effort.
Zero Bureaucracy, Compliance by Confidence
In times when Zero Bureaucracy becomes the government strategy, Vibe Coding can be the way to fulfil bold declarations and truly embrace AI.
When you design a Power Automate flow “by vibe,” you question every loop, every approval, every control that doesn’t add meaning. Instead of hardcoding authority layers, you embed logic that understands why a decision happens. Each branch in the flow represents intent, not just legacy.
In that sense, vibe coding is Zero Bureaucracy expressed in code.
Minimalism: Only essential logic survives.
Trust: Automation handles the routine, people handle the exceptions.
Transparency: The flow reads like a narrative, not a maze.
What we get is the "compliance by confidence". Spend a week vibe coding, and you're going to feel it.