Without Limitation Should law firms encourage vibecoding?
Jan 31, 2026
Helder Santos, leader of Bird & Bird’s global innovation team and law-tech veteran, describes why vibecoding matters. He talks about rapid prototyping with tools like Betty Blocks. He explores governance and safe handoffs, the maintenance and scalability dilemma, shifting training toward product thinking, and how firms can balance speed with sustainable controls.
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Speed Enables Individual Prototyping
- Vibecoding gives individuals fast power to turn ideas into running prototypes using natural-language prompts.
- That speed reveals many niche, personal solutions but raises scaling and reuse challenges across firms.
Provide A Safe Prototype-To-Production Path
- Give users a secure prototype sandbox that maps into enterprise deployment paths.
- Use a platform where prototypes can be promoted to production without painful rewrites.
Contain Deployment Workflows
- Use platforms that host dev, QA and production environments to control deployment.
- Enforce strict production rules while letting experiments run in contained environments.