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Vibe Coding Philosophy

1 min read · Claude Code, Cursor
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Most of what I build now is built with AI assistance. Not “AI-generated” — AI-assisted. There’s a difference, and it matters.

I direct the vision: what the thing should feel like, who it’s for, what job it does, and where the honest edges are. The model handles the implementation — component structure, styling, types, the plumbing I no longer need to hand-write.

The result? One person doing the work of a small team. A funnel experiment, an internal dashboard, a landing page, a CRM workflow — shipped in days, not months, without waiting on a queue.

This is the leverage I keep coming back to. Human judgment + AI execution beats either one alone. The judgment is still the hard part: deciding what’s worth building, keeping the claims true, and knowing when the machine is confidently wrong.

The meta layer is intentional. If you’re reading this on my site, the site itself is part of the proof — built the same way I’d build a growth surface for anyone else.