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?
vibeCoding or AI-assisted coding gets you something that works, fast.
Whether it was worth building at all is a different question, and the AI will never raise it. Ask it for a booking system, a CRM or a blog site and you get one. It will not stop to tell you that the platform you already pay for does this or that three good ones already exist and two are free, or are open source options that you can build on.
So here is the check worth doing first. Is this the best return on the effort?
Build the part that is yours and acquire the rest, which is 2.2.2 - Buy vs Build Is a Strategy Choice, Not an Engineering One.
And remember cost is not one number: money, time, accuracy and what it costs you to change your mind later all move separately, which is laid out here.
The check is hard to run on your own, because it needs you to know what already exists. That is exposure, not intelligence.
So bring it to a Wednesday. Say what you are about to build and we will work out whether you need to build it at all, or only one small piece of it. Ten minutes of that can save you the whole build.
Wednesdays at 5:30pm, one hour, online. Like catching up for a coffee.
Prefer to run the check yourself? The framework is a Claude Code plugin.