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Siddharth K Nair
Thatmoonemojiguy 🌝 • 11d
9 Brutal Vibe-Coding Lessons Every Entrepreneur-Builder Should Know 🚀 Sharing this for the indie hackers, solopreneurs, and midnight makers out there: 1. Lead the AI, or It Will Mislead You AI isn’t magic. It’s a co-pilot, not a founder. If you don’t guide it with structure and vision, you’ll end up with beautiful garbage. 2. Build First, Polish Later Most people over-architect the MVP and never ship. Just get the core experience working. Make it useful. Add animations later. 3. No Product Spec = Fast Burnout Write a one-page PRD before you start. Even for side projects. It’ll keep you from spiraling in 30 open tabs with 3 half-broken features. 4. Tech Debt Grows at AI Speed When you code fast, you break faster. Refactor after every milestone. Otherwise, you’ll be rebuilding your startup every 3 weeks. 5. One Chat per Problem Long AI threads become unusable. Use new chats per bug, per file, per feature. Clear prompts = clear code. 6. Version Control is Non-Negotiable You will break things with one click. Save snapshots. Use Git. Maintain changelogs. Cursor hallucinations are real. 7. Test It Like a User, Not a Dev Forget unit tests for a moment. Just use your product like a customer. If it’s slow, broken, or confusing fix it now, not post-launch. 8. Security Isn’t Optional (Especially with Supabase) People leave public endpoints open all the time. Run a prompt-audit. You don’t want your app leaking user data because “vibes.” 9. You Will Rebuild – That’s Part of the Game Your first version will suck. That’s normal. Just ship, learn, rebuild, and move. Progress > perfection. You’re not just coding. You’re building. Shipping. Selling. Learning. Don’t get stuck in the “perfect code” trap. Get stuck in momentum.
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