Where is the low hanging fruit with AI? - Start with the boring work. Not the clever work. The work that is done the same way every time, because that is where you can tell whether it was done right.
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An AI agent charges you per answer and never says whether the answer was any good - Telemetry records the cost, the template, the model and the latency. It does not record whether the answer was any good, and that half has to be built by hand.
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.
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.
I have stopped trying to help people build apps - Building isn't the hard part anymore. Changing what you built without breaking it is.
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.
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.
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.
A different set of eyes makes all the difference - A single suggestion from a fresh perspective can change everything.
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.
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.
Where the Thinking Is - A rework based on what’s holding up in real builds and where the shape+build+launch+run+close thinking is right now.