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Beyond Vibe Coding: Leveraging Foundation Models to Infer Intent – Keheliya Gallaba
Session Outline:
Why Requirements Engineering is the Bottleneck – Aligning software with true user needs starts with understanding intent.
From Vibe Coding to Real Engineering – Critiquing the throwaway culture of prompting and patching.
What Are Intents (Really)? – Distinguishing goals, requirements, and the hidden rationale that underpins them.
Inferring Intents with Foundation Models – Using Theory of Mind (ToM), iterative refinement, and dialog context to bridge ambiguity.
Conversational Interfaces for Requirement Elicitation – Proactively clarify requirements, resolve contradictions, and avoid premature solutions.
Evaluating Intent Quality – Rubrics for accuracy, relevance, completeness, realizability, and collaboration support.
Real-World Gains Over Baselines – Evidence that FM-inferred requirements deliver better grounding and satisfaction.
Known Challenges – Tackling sycophancy, hallucination, and compute cost.
What’s Next for Requirements Engineering – Reasoning-augmented models, multi-modal inputs, and non-chat interfaces.
Call to Action – Foundation Models shouldn’t just write code—they must understand why the code exists.
