Vibe Coding

So, I have been playing with Google AI Studio for a while but never quite managed to finish and deploy any projects that I started.

What i like most about vibe coding is that you get the bulk of code done really fast, but this also gives you the perception that you can do more projects in parallel or in a given time period.

So in my case, I start a lot of projects, get the 80% done by AI but when it comes to fine-tuning the last 20% I don’t seem to focus on the project and it’s abandoned.

So, I guess we can apply the Pareto Principle here too.

Two weeks ago, I had an idea of vibe coding a task planner, a JIRA alternative, which I adore :D.

After 2 weeks and about 10 hours of active involvement in prompting the AI, I managed to finish and deploy an MVP: Vera

Here are some nice points to remember about vibe coding, and producing apps in general:

• Keep it simple. Do not try and have too many features in your first iteration.
  • You might never launch your perfect app.
  • But you will launch a core app with the main features and add on top of that
• Make small commits of your changes.
  • You can always revert that small change that broke your app somewhere else without much rework.

Now, as for AI Studio in particular, using Gemini 3 Pro Preview:

• I could not get it to work fine with a proper IDE.
  • I tried adding it in VS Code with an API Key but I always got an error after few prompts.
    • I think it was limiting me more severily through VS Code or somehow I was using Gemini through my Copilot subscription.
    • It was really vague and I didn’t want to waste time finding out the cause
• Using the browser pseudo IDE is not that bad but you need to push changes to Github and from there pull the app into your favorite IDE if you wanted easier code management.
• Github integration breaks after a certain time. It might be Github’s fault here, the authentication and authorization works fine, but in AI Studio I get an error.
  • Even with revoking the access and granting it again for AI Studio in Github, it never really worked after the few initial pushes.
  • So I manually downloaded the code from AI Studio, put them in VS Code and pushed them to github.
• Commit or Download the code after each small change.
  • It’s easier to revert any breaking change this way.
• Gemini and other models, break things that worked when implementing new features.
  • That’s why it’s important to double check every commit
• Some times you get an error after a certain prompt and you’re stuck with your app.
  • On older projects, I coult not get AI Studio to resume work on that project.
• It adds AI Features and dependencies in your app without you asking. You can tell it to remove them.

As a conclusion, you can start a lot more projects vibe coding them, but most of them you might not finish.

Some things that would have taken me months, can be done in few hours now!

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