Most people see failure.
I see:
■ 7 lessons learned
■ 7 skills practiced
■ 7 steps closer to the one that works
Your graveyard of projects isn't embarrassing.
It's your education.
The person with 1 "perfect" idea hasn't learned
you can vibe code a good product, as long as you know what you are doing. https://t.co/53io5hvzov
• Meta – LLaMA 3.3 70B Instruct
• OpenAI – GPT-OSS-120B
• Mistral AI – Mistral Large 3
• Google DeepMind – Gemma 3
• Alibaba – Qwen 3
• Tencent – Hunyuan-A13B-Instruct
• Moonshot AI – Kimi K2.5
• DeepSeek –
"vibe coded an app. $100k"
meanwhile I'm debugging for 6 hours
What got you into coding?
Vibe coding is actually hard.
Bad fundamentals + AI = garbage at scale
Solid fundamentals + AI = 10x leverage
Humans who use AI will replace humans who don’t.
Right now, someone is using AI to:
• Finish work faster
• Learn skills in weeks instead of years
• Start businesses with almost zero capital
• Compete with entire teams… alone
The question isn’t “Is
• paper and pen
• yt tutorials
• stackoverflow
- html
- css
- javascript
- git
Now you need to know:
- prompts
- positioning
- marketing
- strategy
• Anthropic - Claude Opus 4.5
• OpenAI - GPT-5.2 / Codex
• Google DeepMind - Gemini 3 Pro
• xAI - Grok 4.1 / Grok Code Fast 1
• Moonshot AI - Kimi K2.5
• Alibaba - Qwen 3 Coder
• Meta - Llama 4 Maverick
• Mistral AI - Devstral 2
• DeepSeek -
Cost me 6 hours of debugging.
1. Endless landing page
2. Purple gradients
3. UX? later
• Build a Calculator to master logic & loops
• Build a Weather App using live APIs
• Build a CRUD Web App with Flask + DB
• Build a Chatbot UI with Streamlit + GPT
• Build a File Organizer with os & shutil
• Build a Resume Parser using NLP
• Build a
A solo SaaS gives freedom.
Both come with challenges - one limits your time, the other tests your patience.
Which one would you choose?
•Solve a problem
•Accidentally create a paradox
•Brag about building systems
•Forget the system exists
•Question why you started coding
Repeat endlessly 😵💫
- fix a bug
- create two new ones
- post on X how distribution is the moat
- do zero distribution
- question life choices
Repeat.
But here's what's actually happening:
Bad engineers → Replaced
Average engineers → Commoditized
Great engineers → 100x more valuable
AI doesn't replace builders.
It separates those who think from those who just code.
AI didn’t lower the bar for building.
It lowered the bar for starting.
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