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CNBC has a write-up on Anthropic’s new Claude Opus 4.6 release and the way the company is framing its next phase: less “write code” and more “work with the model” — what the article calls a “vibe working” era.

I’m sympathetic to the idea that LLMs are getting good enough that the unit of work shifts from functions and files to intent and evaluation. But I also worry that the phrase is doing a lot of marketing labor. If you’ve ever tried to ship something with an LLM in the loop, you know the actual work is still very traditional: defining constraints, writing tests, checking edge cases, and putting guardrails around where the model can and can’t act.

What’s interesting here isn’t the label — it’s the implied competition. Anthropic is trying to own a story about “serious” model usage that isn’t just chat and isn’t just raw code completion: models as collaborators for research, analysis, and planning. That’s a real category, and it matters for teams that don’t have the luxury of a full engineering bench.

If “vibe working” is going to be more than a meme, the win condition is boring: repeatable workflows, measurable quality, and failure modes you can explain.