I am still an "Engineer" but for years have been mostly meetings and Architecture, so I had same experience as you with Vibe Coding, I can get some of my ideas down quickly with my limited time available, but still apply my Engineering knowledge to drive the agents. it has been really enjoyable to get actual ideas out without hitting walls of blockers of getting things running. I know many people enjoy those problems, but I am one of those that after a day of solving hard problems, want to enjoy getting my personal ideas out. I wrote about one I built over Christmas: https://michaeldugmore.com/p/family-planner-vibe-coding-rule...
I had this exact idea, I pointed Codex to it, with giving it context of our environment which is pretty complex. It is struggling, but that is because even our dev experience where I work is not great and not documented, so that would need to be lifted before I can reliably get an agent setup as well integrated as this blog post details.
Over the holidays I worked on on a simple family planner for my family (mostly for me as I am very forgetful and wanted one place for our family things to do)
I also wanted to use the opportunity to mostly vibe code it (I got a month free Pro from OpenAI, so heavily used Codex). I also wanted it to be hosted for free so built it around Cloudflare Pages, Workers and KV store.
It’s basically a mobile-first weekly view that shows “what’s happening this week” for the whole family.
I also wrote a small series about building it and it shows my LLM workflow with the guardrails using AGENTS.md etc.