Intro to Vibe Coding | Part Two

Day 2: From Disposable to Shareable

Day 1 is about building for yourself. Day 2 is about building for someone else.

That shift sounds small. It isn't. The moment another person needs to use what you built, a whole new set of questions shows up. What does an MVP include? What can wait? When do you need a database? When does security start to matter?

Most people skip these questions and build first. That's where projects balloon out of control, scope creeps, and what should have been a two-day build turns into a two-month headache.

But there's a deeper problem most people don't see coming. When you aren't technical, AI will sometimes ask you technical questions. And if you don't know the right answer, you guess. Then it builds something that contradicts what you said three prompts ago, and suddenly you're spending your token budget untangling a mess instead of making progress.

Day 2 fixes that. You'll learn the vocabulary, mental models, and prompting habits that keep your builds clean and consistent. Not so you can talk like a developer, but so AI stops asking you developer questions and starts asking you business and user questions instead. That's when it gets fast.

What you'll practice:

• The glossary that matters: the terms and mental models that keep your prompts clear so AI extrapolates the technical logic and asks you about users and outcomes instead
• Defining your MVP and cutting scope before you start, not after
• Finding existing examples and templates on GitHub so you're building on proven foundations
• The smoke test: getting something, anything, working first before adding complexity
• The milestone decisions that change how you build: do you need a database, payments, security, or connections to outside data sources?
• How to give your build environment access to powerful tools and documentation without setting any of it up yourself
• Deciding whether your tool should be static or agentic, and why that choice matters more than which tool you use to build it