Ship Happens
What works, what breaks, what ships
Written by the VibedSites team. Plain language, working methods, and the habits that separate a demo from something people can use. Every article is open for discussion.
NoobBeginner: start hereSeptember 10, 2026 · 17 min read
Speak the Language of Code (and AI)
A plain-English glossary for people who have never coded. Every term is explained from zero and paired with a sentence you can copy straight into a prompt, with live examples for the visual ones.
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EngineerExpert: you own the consequencesSeptember 8, 2026 · 11 min read
Shipping safely when AI writes the code
When a model writes the code, your job moves from typing to reviewing. These are the review points that actually protect users: secrets, authorization at the point of the side effect, validation at the boundary, database rules, migrations, and a rollback you have practised.
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KETBDKnows Enough to be DangerousSeptember 3, 2026 · 10 min read
Prompts that produce working software
A prompt that produces working software is a small specification: goal, context, constraints, output shape, and a definition of done. Here are the five parts, the templates, the anti-patterns, and a before and after rewrite.
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NoobBeginner: start hereAugust 27, 2026 · 9 min read
What vibe coding actually is, and how to do it well
Vibe coding is not luck and it is not magic. It is a loop: describe a small outcome, let the model write it, run it, read what came back, and correct it. Here is that loop in detail, with the habits that make it produce software people can actually use.
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