I've been pondering something I call "slop core, artisanal shell", as a way of keeping vibecoding under control. Slop core might sound like the thing you want to avoid, but as long as it's purely-functional (or perhaps, merely deterministic) it should be robustly testable. The "artisanal shell" keeps the thing human-understandable and human-modifiable, as long as you put some thought into the API boundaries.
I have been trying to tell the folks at work the same thing. Ideally, using a language that goes in that direction. For frontend web development, for example, there is Elm, which is pure and functional.
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