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Vibe Coding an Author Experience at Adobe Summit 2026

Vibe Coding an Author Experience at Adobe Summit 2026

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At Adobe Summit 2026 in Las Vegas, Chris Millar and I ran a 90-minute hands-on lab Vibe Code an Author Experience for Edge Delivery Services, session L613. We had developers, marketers, and authors in the room, gave everyone an AI coding agent and a live EDS project, and asked them to build a real authoring tool before the session ended. No prior technical skills needed.

Chris & Markus presenting L613

What vibe coding means for EDS

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Vibe coding is an AI-assisted development process in which you describe what you want in natural language and let the agent write the code. You provide intent, goals, constraints and context, and then iterate from there. This approach saves time on syntax and allows you to focus on the decisions that require human input.

EDS is a good fit for this. The architecture is predictable: blocks, scripts, styles, consistent HTML structure. An AI agent trained on EDS docs has solid context to work within, which means fewer wrong turns. Adobe has published guidance on developing with AI tools for EDS, and there’s an open-source set of EDS Skills on GitHub that give agents accurate knowledge of block patterns and EDS conventions so the generated block code, content structures fit the framework rather than fighting it.

What attendees built

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The core exercise in this lab is to build a full-screen document authoring application. In our case, this is an event creator user interface that enables authors to fill in event details and publish a fully structured EDS page directly to DA without having to edit the code. After saving, it redirected straight to the new page in the DA editor. Everything was built on top of Las Vegas Events, a sample EDS site we prepared for the lab.

To make it more enjoyable for the participants, we added two ways to complete the task: a step-by-step process involving six Cursor prompts, or YOLO mode, which involves a single prompt and seeing what comes back and fixing what doesn’t work. We demonstrated the step-by-step process on stage. YOLO mode is for those who are impatient.

Now for the good news: the Lab Workbook, containing the full lab instructions, and the GitHub repository are still available. So you can try it out at any time and learn how to quickly build small apps for da.live.

The DA MCP as the capstone

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The bonus exercise connected the DA MCP server to Cursor. Once set up, attendees could read, update and create event pages in DA via plain-language chat, without the need for a browser, form or app.

Not form-driven, not click-driven. You say what you want and the agent does it. This is what agentic CMS authoring looks like.

What people said

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The first review blogs and podcasts appeared shortly after the Adobe Summit. Arbory Digital covered the lab in their Summit 2026 recap podcast (YouTube + Spotify) our session comes up at the 28-minute mark. They wrote that Chris and my lab “should have convinced positively anyone that a brand-new era of author customizability is at hand.” Perficient’s Raf Winterpacht called it one of his favourite sessions of the entire conference.

Resources

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