The cheapest way to build an AI agent is the most expensive way to run one - The option that feels like progress in week one is the one still charging you in week fifty. An agent has to keep its policy somewhere. There are three obvious places to put it.
Interesting to me. Not to you. - What stops you pressing the button? Gut feel, a friend, a chat AI, market research.
Your next vibeCode starts where the last one finished - The first vibeCode is rough. It is also the worst it will ever be. What the next one is worth depends entirely on what you rebase it onto.
I wrote down everything I know about building with AI - A year of building, written down. The agent loop, why more tools make an agent worse and what a gate should actually check.
A Wednesday check-in to make your vibe have more value - A ten minute check before you vibeCode something or hand it to an AI: is this the best return on the effort and does it already exist?
The AI answered like an engineer. That was the problem. - The AI gave the perfect technical answer and it was exactly the wrong answer.
The guide has moved - It is now free and ungated, with no signup. Read it at vibe2value.com/guide/.
AI can build anything. So why are you still stuck? - The code is the easy part now. The two hard parts of AI coding are knowing where to start and the fact the AI forgets. Here is help with both.
What's your one tip for building with AI you can trust? - Let's collect them. One shared list, added to and voted up by the people who use it. Let's aim for 99.
Thank you and a clearer vibe2value - Your feedback to yesterdays email resulted in some changes. The big one: the site now says plainly what it is, a way of thinking about building with AI.
The ideas are easier to read now and the first videos - I went back through all 27 ideas to make them easier to read. And I started making short videos.
Over my head and I don't know where to start - Two messages on the same day at opposite ends. They turned out to be the same problem.
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