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AI and vibecoding bring millions of people into building digital products with a greenhorn attitude and a "works on localhost" mindset. Then they hit a wall and frantically search for someone who learned the craft of building in the pre-AI age. Devs have

In early 2025, I moved from creating code in ChatGPT to Replit, and after a few months I changed to a different setup. Early experimentation For early experimentation, I use v0. While I have many apps on the radar, I settled on v0 for this because I alrea

It's getting replaced by websites built with AI. At the beginning of the vibecoding era, the common thinking was: AI is good enough for a static page, but maintaining and updating it is cumbersome. That was also my own experience. In 2024, I worked on a p

Maybe. But at prototype stage, that's okay. AI builds from established patterns: the buttons, the flows, the color systems your users already know. No friction. No learning curve. It's boring by design, and boring works when you're testing a hypothesis. T

Since the first release of ChatGPT in November 2022, every aspect of digital creation has been turned upside down. One area especially affected is coding. Anyone can now enter a prompt with an app idea and start building their exact dream app. The first s

In a previous post, I shared how I built a simple SaaS dashboard using v0 in under an hour. It was a classic "vibecoded" prototype: a quick hack that worked on my local machine, looked great, but relied on manual CSV uploads and had zero security. It was

The amount of stuff you push out - in content, apps, feature updates, socials - your bandwidth has increased. But what about your audience's brain? Keeping a frequency is now easier. Even increasing the number of work items you can ship. Then step into th

Building a custom dashboard to meet your needs usually meant one of two things: Buying software that can do it for you, but with a high learning curve for users Or using an off-the-shelf app like Excel or Google Sheets to build it - Lower entry barrier, b

As we enter the new year, many of us evaluate our digital habits. Coming out of the holiday break, the same question often surfaces: Which social media platforms deserve our time, and where should we cut back? Specifically, should I stay on Twitter, or is

Many software companies sent me wrapped reports for 2025. And while I ignore most of them, two stood out when I received them for the first time: Replit and Cursor. And that's a reminder of which new skills I picked up in 2025. Coding via prompt, prototyp