VIBEFIX GUIDES
Practical knowledge for tools, deployment, workflows, and building projects.
Fallout: New York just got cease-and-desisted by Bethesda. AI lets one person "remake" a AAA title in days, but copyright law offers no discount for that. This guide gives 5 practical rules — from domains and assets to training data to what to do if the letter arrives — so you can homage the classics without stepping on mines.
Anthropic just opened up Claude Code to mods. Instead of chasing the flashy official demos, write something that actually protects you every day: a guardrail mod that intercepts dangerous commands. This guide walks the full loop — understand the event model, have Claude write it for you, install and hot-reload, then run the security self-check.
The biggest waste in vibe coding isn't wrong code — it's building something nobody wants. AI drives validation cost to near zero: a landing page in a day to test conversion, a fake door button to count clicks, concierge delivery before software, AI-assisted interview synthesis, and presales to see if anyone will pay. Validation isn't procrastination — it's buying the right not to build, at minimal cost.
AI writes code fast but debugs slowly — because you're still directing the agent with pre-AI debugging habits. "Fix it" is the most expensive instruction. Five patterns: reproduce first, give full context at once, bisect the search space, require a regression test, and cap attempts at three. Debugging is one of the last moats for programmers in the AI era.
In vibe coding, the most dangerous line is often not written by AI — it's installed by it. OpenCode's RCE came through an npm preinstall script. This guide gives you a dependency review workflow you can set up tonight: lockfiles, audits, least privilege — so your AI's generosity stops becoming your incident.
AI compressed your launch into a week, but nobody took your on-call shift. First-week users are the most forgiving — and churn the fastest. This manual covers error tracking, uptime monitoring, log hygiene, and rollback plans: set up four things the night before launch, then spend 15 minutes a day on patrol.
The distance from a vibe coding demo to a real business is often exactly one payment button. Stripe is the most vibe-coder-friendly way to collect money: docs an AI can read and get right, hosted Checkout pages with zero frontend work, and Payment Links that collect money in 5 minutes. This guide covers two integration paths, the steps from zero to your first payment, and four pitfalls you're guaranteed to hit — the first of which costs people money every year.
Three flat months, willpower maintenance, fearing your own dashboard — six signals to quit, four graceful ways to kill, and what the saved time is worth.
How to build working, episodic, and semantic memory; three sources of memory pollution, TTLs and memory GC; and whether you need a memory system at all.
No best model exists — only the one fitting your constraints. A four-dimension scoring framework, hybrid routing architecture, and picks for three typical profiles.
Share decisions, not progress; dominate one channel; build assets, not traffic — the two principles and weekly operating system for solo-founder content growth.
The payment webhook that demoed perfectly and exploded three days after launch: four correct postures for having AI write tests, three high-voltage lines requiring human review (money/permissions/deletion, concurrency, migrations), and a minimal pipeline for tonight.