@inproceedings{vibe,
author = {Srijan Bansal and Fangkai Jiao and Yilun Zhou and Austin Xu and Shafiq Joty and Semih Yavuz},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
series = {EMNLP-26},
title = {Can Vibe Coders Really Pass the Vibe Check? An Empirical Analysis of Fault-Targeted Reasoning in Frontier LLMs},
url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.15921},
year = {2026}
}