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The AI answered like an engineer. That was the problem. - The AI gave the perfect technical answer and it was exactly the wrong answer.
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Free download: AI can build anything, so why not build something you trust? - Lessons from real builds with AI, turned into a simple method any beginner can follow. A free, coffee-length read that takes you from a rough idea to something you can trust.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Build with AI and trust what you make: the prompts and notes to get you there - The biggest update yet. Every idea now has a sharper prompt and its own diagram, and the working notes for working with AI have grown.
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The soft skills of working with AI - Most of getting good with AI is not the tool. It is how you work with it, moment to moment.
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I have stopped trying to help people build apps - Building isn't the hard part anymore. Changing what you built without breaking it is.
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AI did the easy part - Building fast with AI hides the risks you have not named. Pick one real person, walk them through your build, fix the step where they get stuck. Skip this and the rework comes due in week six.
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The moment before your name goes on it - There is a pause right before you launch. That pause is not about polish. It is about the quiet contract with someone who decided to trust you. Right now you decide what happens to it.
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genAI Horizons 2026 - Fourth year running. Members from the community share short clips on how AI is showing up in their digital marketing work. 2 July 2026.
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All the research, nothing to show for it - what if you could deliver this week? - You bought the books. Watched the tutorials. Spun up projects on three different stacks with two different AI coding tools. Investigated frameworks, compared hosting platforms, read threads from people who sound like they have it figured out.
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A different set of eyes makes all the difference - A single suggestion from a fresh perspective can change everything.
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Multi-Sided Systems Blur Faster - The issue wasn’t that the user was vague. It was that there wasn’t just one.
StartWithYourContext Application - A working AI search app built to learn from. Set your context once, get answers shaped by your situation. Built end-to-end on Cloudflare as a real, open example you can use and adapt.
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If AI Is Your Guardrail, You’ve Already Lost - AI can move fast. But it won’t fix direction. If that part isn’t clear, speed just gets you to the wrong place quicker.
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Where the Thinking Is - A rework based on what’s holding up in real builds and where the shape+build+launch thinking is right now.
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Reviewing AI-Assisted Code Changes - When AI changes a lot of code quickly, review is no longer about reading lines. It’s about making sure you still understand what will happen in production.
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Pressure moving upstream - The bottleneck isn't typing. It's clarity. AI makes building fast. AI doesn't remove responsibility, it exposes it.
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Don’t Reinvent the Wheel, Question the Price Tag Instead - More people are pausing and asking a simple but powerful question: “Should I really be paying this much for that?”
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When effort and systems stop being the same thing - At small scale, effort and systems look identical. The moment they stop looking identical is the moment you should have built the system one project ago.
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3.3.3 - Are You Comfortable Putting Your Name on This Build? - Set the ownership threshold: say what is still imperfect, what would happen if it failed and why shipping is still acceptable under those conditions.