VIBEFIX GUIDES
Practical knowledge for tools, deployment, workflows, and building projects.
Heavy agent users pay $60–200/month, but half of it burns on tasks that never deserved it. This guide gives a practical model-routing playbook: which model for which task, how to set up automatic downgrades, and three moves that cut 40% immediately. What you save isn't pocket change — it's next month's server budget.
Your agent may be pasting GPL code into your closed-source project without you knowing — and 'the AI wrote it' is not a legal defense. This guide maps where the license risk in AI-generated code actually lives: training-data contamination, the state of the Copilot lawsuits, and a self-audit checklist any indie can run tonight.
If your app feeds user input to AI, someone can hijack it with one sentence telling it to 'forget previous instructions.' Not theory: in real 2026 attacks, agents were hijacked by hidden instructions in webpages and tricked into leaking system prompts. Three injection shapes and four defense layers — required reading before your vibe app ships.
AI cut the cost of building tenfold — and the cost of research tenfold too. A repeatable competitor-research workflow for solo builders: map the field in the morning, run 12 comparison dimensions in the afternoon, ship a one-page decision by night — and why its greatest value is telling you what NOT to do.
The biggest risk of letting an agent refactor legacy code isn't wrong code — it's deleted correct code carrying hard-won lessons. Five rules: build the safety net first, slice rollback-small, make the agent an archaeologist, freeze behavior not implementation, and write down tacit knowledge. Plus a rewrite-vs-refactor framework.
The biggest waste in the agent era isn't weak models — it's sending agents to build before intent is clear. A complete spec-driven methodology: the 5-part spec that actually drives agents, the Spec→Plan→Task→Verify loop, 4 iron disciplines, and an honest call on when a spec isn't worth it.
More vibe coding projects die from database selection than from code bugs — not because they chose wrong, but because they chose too heavy, too early. This guide starts with a decision table, breaks down the real trade-offs of Supabase, Neon, Turso, Convex, and Firebase, and ends with three counter-intuitive tips — the most important one: don't pick the "strongest," pick the one you won't regret deleting.
Every new agent session starts with amnesia: it doesn't know your test commands, which directories are off-limits, or the pitfalls you hit last week. AGENTS.md is the project manual written for AI — a good one makes the agent feel like a veteran teammate on day one. This guide covers the 5 must-have sections, 3 anti-patterns, and a copy-paste-ready template.
AI writes a month of your code in a day — and tech debt accumulates at the same speed: duplicated utils, an 800-line component nobody dares touch, 0% test coverage on core flows. This guide gives a repayment roadmap: quantify first, categorize, then repay in 'highest interest' order — with the agent itself as the repayment crew, not you.
AI coding agents can now work autonomously for hours — the bottleneck is no longer agent speed but your trust and workflow design. Still staring at the screen waiting? This guide gives 5 principles: split tasks to be verifiable, checkpoints over screen-watching, notifications over polling, failure budgets over perfectionism, retrospectives over reruns. Treat the agent as an async colleague, not a pairing buddy.
Photon held a funeral for the mobile app and raised $4.5M on one judgment: users don't want to install new apps; services should live in iMessage and WhatsApp. This guide skips the hype for practice: which products fit 'message-native,' 4 design principles for conversational UX, and a minimal validation plan a vibe coder can start tonight.
As of October 2026, 12 major coding agents — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf and more — all support tool-call interception via hooks. 'Ask me before the agent does something bad' went from luxury to standard. This guide covers 4 essential hook types: secret-leak blocking, dangerous-command confirmation, file-write fencing, and audit trails.