Category Archives: Vibe Coding
Conclusion: The Shift Is Already Happening — What You Do With It Is Your Choice
The transition from traditional knowledge work to AI-augmented knowledge work is not a future event to prepare for. It is the present to act on. This conclusion frames what the case study documented, what it means, and why starting now produces a compounding advantage that starting later cannot replicate.
The Human in the Loop — What Real User Feedback Actually Changes
Sitting with users during live builds produced more useful signal in an hour than days of solo review. Here is what real-time user feedback actually changes — and the iteration patterns that made the biggest difference across twenty products.
How the Latest AI Innovations Would Have Changed Everything We Built
Claude Agent Teams, Agent Skills, MCP, 1-million-token context windows, extended thinking — these are not incremental improvements. Here is what we would have built differently, and what you should build from the start.
Six Lessons We Should Have Learned Sooner — The Honest Retrospective
Looking back at twelve months and twenty products, six things that should have been done differently from day one. Stated plainly, with the specific rule or habit that would have made the difference, for anyone building an AI collaboration practice now.
The 90-Day Adoption Roadmap for Any Professional
A practical 90-day roadmap for building a systematic AI collaboration practice from scratch — regardless of technical background or domain. Three phases, specific milestones, and the disciplines that produce compounding leverage over time.
What Your Job Looks Like When AI Does Half the Work
When AI handles the production work, what remains for the human? More than most people expect — and it is the higher-value work. A concrete examination of how professional roles shift when AI becomes a genuine collaborator, and what that shift means for career development.
The Framework — How Any Professional Can Apply This to Their Work
The methodology documented in this series reduces to five phases and two foundational practices. Here is how they work in a software context and how they translate to any knowledge work domain — research, analysis, writing, strategy, legal work, financial modeling.
Technical Debt Management — Staying Fast Without Breaking Things Over Time
Vibe coding produces technical debt faster than traditional development. That is a property of the methodology, not a failure of execution. Managing it systematically is what determines whether the practice is sustainable over years or collapses under accumulated debt within eighteen months.
The Honest Risk Assessment — What Can Actually Go Wrong With Vibe Coding
Vibe coding has real risks: technical debt, security gaps, skill atrophy, over-reliance on one AI provider, and knowledge concentration. This post names them clearly and describes what to do about each one — without either dismissing them or treating them as dealbreakers.
Time Is the Real Currency — What Calendar Compression Actually Means Competitively
Dollar savings are easier to measure than time savings, but in most competitive situations, calendar speed is the more valuable advantage. What the compression from months to weeks actually enables, and how to think about it strategically.
The Real Numbers — What Twenty Products Actually Cost, and What a Human Team Would Have Cost
Full cost analysis of the twenty-product portfolio: what was spent on AI APIs, what the equivalent human team cost would have been, and the honest comparison that changes how you think about AI investment.
The Personalized Playbook — Building a Knowledge System That Compounds
The most durable asset built in this practice was not software — it was a living document capturing everything learned. How to build a personal knowledge system that makes every future AI session better than the last, in any professional domain.
The Multi-Agent Model — Why Specialists Outperform Generalists on Complex Tasks
A system of specialist AI agents — each with pre-loaded deep context for a specific domain — consistently outperforms general AI sessions on complex specialist tasks. Here is the architecture, how it operates, and how to build an equivalent system for any knowledge work domain.
Building the Infrastructure That Multiplies Everything
The shared library, the agent system, the coding playbook — these are not products. They are multipliers. Why the highest-leverage investment in any AI-augmented practice is building infrastructure before you feel like you need it.
The Requirements Gap — When the AI Builds Exactly What You Said, Not What You Needed
The most persistent source of wasted iteration time is the gap between what was described in the requirements and what was actually needed. How to identify and close that gap before the build begins, and what it costs when you do not.
Context Debt — The Hidden Cost Nobody Sees Coming
Every AI session that starts from scratch costs more in tokens and time than one that begins with accurate context already loaded. We paid that cost hundreds of times before building the infrastructure to eliminate it. Here is what that means and how to avoid it.
The Duplicate Code Problem — Building the Same Thing Seven Times
The most expensive mistake in the portfolio: building the same API clients and database classes independently in product after product, when a shared library should have existed from product three. How it happened, what it actually cost, and the rule that prevents it.
Talking to AI Like a Technical Director, Not a User
There is a specific mental posture that separates effective AI collaboration from frustrating interaction. It is not about being more technical. It is about owning outcomes rather than consuming outputs — and there is a clear set of practices that make that shift operational.
The Iteration Engine — How Multiple Builds per Day Actually Works
Traditional software development is slow because coordinating humans is slow. Vibe coding removes most of that coordination overhead. Here is the specific mechanics of how, the real limits on speed, and what the compression makes possible.
How to Talk to an AI So It Actually Builds What You Want
The gap between what you ask for and what you get back is almost always a communication problem, not an AI capability problem. The specific techniques that produce reliably better results — from twenty products and hundreds of sessions.
Building the First Product — What We Got Right and What We Got Wrong
The first product in any new methodology is your test case, not your best work. Here is what actually happened when we started building with AI — the decisions that worked, the assumptions that failed, and the patterns that held for every product that followed.
The AI Threat Is Real — And White-Collar Workers Are Next
The AI disruption wave is not coming for factory workers first. It is targeting the people who write reports, build decks, manage projects, and analyze data. Here is the case for taking it seriously right now.
What Is Vibe Coding — And Why the Underlying Principle Matters for Everyone
Vibe coding is iterative, conversational, intent-driven collaboration with an AI partner. What it actually looks like in practice — and why the core skill transfers to any knowledge work domain, not just software.
Introduction: I Let AI Agents Run My Business for a Year. Here Is What Happened.
I let AI agents run my business for a year. Before the case study begins — the twenty products, the million-dollar portfolio, the $25,000 in AI costs — here is the thing that actually made it work: I gave the AI everything.
Twenty Products in Twelve Months — The Full Portfolio and What the Numbers Reveal
A complete inventory of every product built, how long each took, and what the patterns across the full set reveal about what vibe coding actually produces at scale.