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AI & Vibe Coding
Building with AI tools, no-code, and the new vibe-coding workflow.
- AI & Vibe Coding
Jun 4, 2026 · 10 min read
When to Hire a Developer vs When to Keep Vibe Coding
The seven stage-of-product signals that tell you your AI-built app has outgrown DIY. Regulated data, SLA commitments, real onboarding, multi-region, diligence, security reviews, audits.
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- AI & Vibe Coding
May 31, 2026 · 10 min read
Vibe Coding Plus Agency Retainer: The Model That Actually Works
How to structure an agency retainer when you ship daily with Lovable or Bolt but need humans for deploy, audits, incidents, and monthly ops. Pricing, scope, and the clauses that matter.
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- AI & Vibe Coding
May 28, 2026 · 11 min read
The Technical Debt AI Tools Create (And What to Do About It)
AI tools generate code that works today but is hard to modify tomorrow. The five categories of AI-specific tech debt we find most, and the refactor patterns that pay them down without a full rewrite.
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- AI & Vibe Coding
May 25, 2026 · 10 min read
What to Include in a Lovable Handoff to an Agency
The package a founder should send to an agency that is picking up a Lovable project. Repo access, Supabase credentials, env vars, design tokens, roadmap, known issues, and the secrets rotation nobody...
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- AI & Vibe Coding
May 21, 2026 · 11 min read
The 'Last Mile' Developer: Why AI-Built Apps Need One
AI coding tools get a founder to 70 percent in an afternoon. The last 30 percent is where every production incident lives. This is the category, the skill stack, and why neither a full-stack...
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- AI & Vibe Coding
May 18, 2026 · 10 min read
Plan Mode in Claude Code: Why It Changes How Founders Ship
Plan mode generates a full plan before writing code. For non-technical founders, this is the most important Claude Code feature. How to use it, what to review, when to stop it and restart.
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- AI & Vibe Coding
May 15, 2026 · 9 min read
Claude Code vs Cursor vs Aider: The Real-World Comparison
Three agentic coding tools tested on the same four projects. Output quality, cost, speed, human intervention needed. Decision framework by task type.
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- AI & Vibe Coding
May 11, 2026 · 9 min read
Skills and Hooks: Claude Code Patterns Worth Copying
The skills directory structure (what you keep there, what you don't), the hooks config, and the three workflows we have automated this way across client projects.
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- AI & Vibe Coding
May 8, 2026 · 10 min read
Claude Code for Maintenance: The Weekly Operations Workflow
Every Monday: dependency update, security patch, test run, log review, cost review. The Claude Code automation we run to keep client projects from rotting between feature work.
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- AI & Vibe Coding
May 4, 2026 · 10 min read
Deploying Claude Code Output: From Artifact to Vercel in 20 Minutes
Start to finish: prompt, generate, local-run, commit, Vercel connect, env vars, DNS, live. The shortest path we know. For solo founders who want a URL by end of day.
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- AI & Vibe Coding
May 1, 2026 · 10 min read
The Sub-Agents Pattern for Long-Running Claude Code Tasks
Breaking a large task into sub-agents that each have narrow context. The pattern we use for 8-hour refactors, data migrations, and cross-repo changes. Includes actual prompt templates.
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- AI & Vibe Coding
Apr 27, 2026 · 11 min read
Claude Code for Founders: The CLAUDE.md That Changes Everything
The project-level instructions file that transforms Claude Code from helpful to operational. The WitsCode CLAUDE.md template, what to include, what to exclude, and the commit-message rule that saves...
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- AI & Vibe Coding
Apr 24, 2026 · 11 min read
Subscription Apps Built With AI: The Billing Edge Cases Your Generator Skipped
Proration on upgrade, cancel at period end versus immediate, trial expiry, failed payments, and the reactivation door that swings one way. The Stripe subscription paths your AI builder never wrote.
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- AI & Vibe Coding
Apr 23, 2026 · 10 min read
Supabase Database Indexing: The Performance Work AI Won't Do For You
AI-generated schemas rarely include indexes. Walk through the EXPLAIN ANALYZE workflow, the four index types we add most, and the migration pattern to add them without downtime.
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- AI & Vibe Coding
Apr 21, 2026 · 10 min read
Stripe Test Mode to Live Mode: The Pre-Launch Checklist for AI-Built Apps
22 checks before you flip Stripe to live mode. Webhook endpoints, test cards, tax, legal pages, invoice branding, refund policy, dispute handling.
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- AI & Vibe Coding
Apr 17, 2026 · 11 min read
Stripe Connect vs Checkout: The Decision AI Tools Can't Make for You
If your app moves money on behalf of other users, Connect is mandatory and Checkout will not save you. A walk through the account-type decision, the AccountLink onboarding flow, application fees, and...
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- AI & Vibe Coding
Apr 15, 2026 · 10 min read
Stripe Webhooks That Don't Drop When It Matters
The reliable-webhook pattern for Stripe: signature verification with raw bodies, event.id idempotency, async 200-OK-then-process, and dead-letter queues. Why passing test mode is not the same as...
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- AI & Vibe Coding
Apr 11, 2026 · 11 min read
Stripe Integration in AI-Built Apps: What the AI Misses
Stripe is easy to wire up in a demo and hard to get right in production. The nine edge cases AI tools miss, from raw-body webhooks to dispute alerts, and how to fix each one.
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- AI & Vibe Coding
Apr 7, 2026 · 10 min read
Magic Links vs Passwords: What to Ship for Your AI-Built MVP
Magic links are the default on Lovable. They are not always right. Here is when password auth wins, when OTP makes sense, and the hybrid pattern we use on high-trust B2B apps.
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- AI & Vibe Coding
Apr 4, 2026 · 10 min read
Auth Middleware: The Layer Every Vibe-Coded App Needs
AI-built Next.js apps almost always protect routes in React, which is not protection at all. Here is the server-side middleware layer with Supabase SSR that actually stops bad actors, plus the...
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- AI & Vibe Coding
Apr 1, 2026 · 9 min read
Session Handling AI Tools Get Consistently Wrong
Session Handling AI Tools Get Consistently Wrong When an AI coding tool builds you an authenticated app, the login screen almost always works. A user types an email, receives a magic link or enters a...
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- AI & Vibe Coding
Mar 28, 2026 · 11 min read
Role-Based Access Control in a Lovable App: The Real Implementation
Lovable ships auth but not RBAC. The role schema, custom access token hook, RLS policies and server-side UI checks that actually hold up in production.
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- AI & Vibe Coding
Mar 25, 2026 · 10 min read
Clerk vs Supabase Auth vs Auth.js for AI-Built Apps
Three realistic auth options for founders who have outgrown the default. A decision framework covering cost at 10K MAU, SSO readiness, Organizations, and the real price of DIY.
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- AI & Vibe Coding
Mar 22, 2026 · 11 min read
Migrating Off Supabase: When and How
Signals you have outgrown Supabase and the honest migration path to managed Postgres plus a real auth provider, including the zero-downtime playbook most guides get wrong.
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