r/AskVibecoders 9h ago

Stop Vibe-Coding in the Dark And Start Using The Prompt Grid Framework

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The Master Vibe-Coding Blueprint by Prompt Grid provides the operating framework that AI coding tools need to build stable, scalable applications.

Taking away the constant reliance on endless trial and error by implementing the Prompt Grid framework from the start that will keep your code and your AI within the architectural limits.

What Makes PromptGrid Different?

Most prompt libraries focus on generating features.

PromptGrid focuses on generating systems.

The difference is significant.

Rather than asking AI to build one component at a time, the PromptGrid framework forces strategic planning before development begins, reducing technical debt and dramatically improving project stability.


r/AskVibecoders 8h ago

Do we guard our AI slop because it handed us a competence high?

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Hear me out before downvoting…

Watched someone at work look at one polished AI output and seriously propose we rewrite the entire company language, the offer, the whole damn product. off one prompt. and i got it, because i pull the same shit. you prompt something, it looks clean, and your brain credits you with the skill for free. you feel capable as fuck in four seconds. so when anyone critiques it, it lands like a personal hit. the attachment forms around that feeling, not the output, and we defend the slop because that high is worth more to us than the generating thing ever actually was.


r/AskVibecoders 8h ago

Solo Vibe Coding with Claude Opus 4.7/4.8 and Claude Code

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Until this year, I have never written a single line of code. I am not a trained comp sci pro or engineer. I run a small shop consulting business that helps people produce complex text and information displays in unique document types. I both train people how to create those documents and I also do reviewing and revisions of those documents.

I am now replicating one of my workflows using Claude Code. I charge $250 per hour for each one on one in person instance of the workflow. Each in person workflow instance is a minimal two hours. My business is using the low end Claude Team plan.

Here is how I have done it so far.

  1. Started with a development plan that gets revised and updated every convo. Development plan contains the big picture.

The development plan has the following sections

  • Project Overview
  • Architecture --with subsections Core Components, Current File Structure, API Model Strategy, Token Economics
  • What Has Been Built
  • How it Was Built--The Process
  • Lessons Learned
  • What Will Be Built
  • Key Design Decisions for Future Reference
  • Future Directions--Launch Strategy, Usage Metrics, UI Overhaul (currently working, but ugly looking), Payment Integration, Backend for Production
  1. Every convo ends with a SESSION_HANDOFF summary document.
  2. Every convo ends with a TASK_NAMEOFTASK mark down file to be used in the next session for next task.
  3. Every convo ends with the Development Plan updated.

Start the next session with Claude Opus reading the handoff and task files. Open Claude Code in another window. We code. We test, We fix problems. We finish with a completed task. Claude Opus tells me what to prompt Claude Code with (most of which is "code speak" that I have no idea what it means!!)

We get this piece working. Note: the session often surfaces edge cases.

Then--Update development plan, create session handoff summary document, create next task document, and any updates to Claude.md which is VERY specific to this workflow.

It's religiously methodical and uses bite size pieces. The focus is to automate my manual output for which I get paid that hourly fee, and scale in a market that is sizable.

Above all, everything involved -- the working docs, the markdowns, are in plain, vernacular English.


r/AskVibecoders 5h ago

My Claude code is now 2x faster, 3x cheaper and better quality using this tool!

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I'll be very direct for people who actually need it.
I built a tool GrapeRoot, a dependency graph context layer for your codebase, graph retrieves relevant files using Zero tokens, and let claude do work better.

I actually built it for myself to save tokens but it was crazy that people actually needed it, just open your terminal and run the installation command and then instead of writing claude everytime, write dgc in your project directory, everything will be setup automatically.

See people saved $100k in 3 months : https:// graperoot.dev/leaderboard (only 60 who optin for leaderboard)

3k installs, 500 devs daily using it, Open source tool and free to use. You can save upto 80% of tokens

No Al Slop, just natural free tool recommendation.

If you want github, use this: https://github.com/ kunal12203/codex-cli-compact
Main website: https://graperoot.dev


r/AskVibecoders 10h ago

Jump Jump Jump

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r/AskVibecoders 14h ago

Add MiniMax M3 as a fallback to Claude Code and never get rate-limited again

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r/AskVibecoders 9h ago

Vibe coders: What is the absolute biggest bottleneck you would unhesitatingly pay $+/month to completely fix?

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Hey everyone,
Vibe coding feels like magic when you’re building a prototype or a clean 0-to-1 MVP. You prompt, the AI ships, and things just work. But we all hit that wall where the "vibe" stops working and things get incredibly painful.

I’m trying to map out the deepest, most agonizing pain points in our workflow—specifically the ones that are so annoying you would happily pay cold, hard cash for a tool or service to handle it for you.

If you had to pick the absolute worst part of the stack right now, what is it? I’ve dropped a few options below, but if it’s something else, roast me in the comments.

**1: Regression Hell / Infinite Loops**
**2: The Ui sucks
**3: Context Drift
**4: Blind-Spot Debugging**
**5: anything else

Don’t hesitate to share your opinion it may help someone like you ✌🏻


r/AskVibecoders 18h ago

Folk is launching on ProductHunt

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Hey vibecoders, go check out folk and please give it some support 😉

https://www.producthunt.com/products/folk-3


r/AskVibecoders 1d ago

My vibed Game

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r/AskVibecoders 1d ago

AI-powered outfit recommendations

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r/AskVibecoders 2d ago

Opus 4.8 stopped cutting corners

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Claude Opus 4.8 is Here.

Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8 forty-two days after 4.7 dropped on April 17, the fastest turnaround in Claude's release history. Same context window, output length, knowledge cutoff, and price: $5 per million input, $25 per million output. Anthropic re-tuned the 4.7 base rather than training something new.

Scores edged up across the board. The one category Anthropic still can't take from GPT-5.5 is Terminal-Bench 2.1, the agentic benchmark that drops a model into a sandboxed terminal and makes it find files, run commands, read errors, and debug across multiple steps. It's the closest proxy for raw agent-dev capability.

It stopped hiding its own bugs

Claude writes a feature, says it's done, you run it, something else breaks. You go back, it apologizes, fixes it with the same certainty, you run it again, new error. The confidence never matched what it knew.

Anthropic's figure: 4.8 lets flaws in its own code slip past about 4x less often than the previous generation. On cutting corners, Anthropic's system card puts 4.8 at a 0% bad rate, the only model there.

I had a dashboard 4.7 built that lagged ten-plus seconds per click. Asked why, 4.7 said that's how realtime queries perform and it couldn't be fixed. 4.8 went through the same code line by line and pulled out the real bottlenecks.

More precise, less proactive

4.8 does what you point it at, closer to GPT-5.5's behavior. Error rate and hallucination rate both drop. The cost is initiative: tell it to do A and it does A, nothing else.

I hit this the first night. I forgot to tell it to check production data instead of reading local code. On 4.6 and 4.7, the model would reach for my skill, connect to the production server, and pull live data without prompting. 4.8 didn't, twice, and handed me fixes built on local assumptions.

With tight prompts and your own harness, this feels great. The model executes the spec and stops guessing. The vibe coding crowd loses more than it gains. Our video team tested 4.8 on their skill-driven motion-effects workflow tonight and the output got worse: more confident, fewer check-ins, optimization plans executed with no confirmation step. You now have to specify what the model used to infer.

Creative writing still trails 4.6

Same skill, same brief, better than 4.7, behind 4.6. I ran my piece on the six talent traits of the AI era through 4.8 with my writing skill. It dodged the banned "not X but Y" construction by rewriting it as "no longer X", which evades the rule without solving it. It compared a reliable person to lubricant in a high-speed machine, and another to an objectified anchor, with long stretches of empty parallelism. A 1000-word Wandering Earth 2 continuation came back stiff and stereotyped.

The web app keeps two generations, so 4.8 bumped 4.6 off. The content prompts and skills I tuned on 4.6 go back for a rewrite.

Other changes

Effort control is open on every plan now, free included. It sits next to the model picker, Low through Max, with an adaptive-thinking toggle underneath. Run both together. 4.7 only had adaptive thinking, so this is a return.

Fast mode got cheaper. 4.7's fast ran 2.5x speed at 6x the price: $30 input, $150 output against the standard $5 and $25. 4.8 keeps 2.5x speed and drops to a third of the old fast tier, $10 input and $50 output, two times standard instead of six. Trigger it with /fast in Claude Code.

Dynamic workflows landed in Claude Code. Claude writes its own orchestration script, spins up dozens to hundreds of subagents in parallel for one task, verifies the result, then hands it back. Anthropic targets it at bug hunts across a whole service, migrations touching hundreds of files, and plans needing multi-angle stress testing in complex legacy codebases. Two triggers: tell Claude Code to create a dynamic workflow directly, or set effort to Ultracode, which pushes effort to xhigh and lets Claude decide when to spin one up.

Anthropic also flagged a model a tier above Opus, code-named Mythos, opening to all customers in a few weeks.


r/AskVibecoders 1d ago

What’s the best way to handle project memory in Claude Code or Codex?

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r/AskVibecoders 1d ago

Dotnet nativeAOT Token Optimised Tool Output CLI

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A month or so ago I started building a CLI tool essentially with the goal of replicating some of the functionality of a popular Rust based tool called RTK. The premise is fairly simple, the CLI tool sits between your AI coding agent and whatever bash tool its trying to use and intercepts the response and then minimises it to avoid unnecessary token consumption.

While RTK already existed, I wanted to do some extra stuff and figured it would be a fun thing to try and implement in C# with nativeAOT compilation, and additionally I didn't really want to learn rust (just vibecode it and just trust that Claude / Codex was doing it right).

Hypabolic/Hypa

I'm not at v0.1.1 and I've ended up going way beyond what I initially intended in terms of feature set. I've implemented a full MCP Server and Client for a start, so coding harnesses can talk to Hypa via MCP but additionally Hypa can act as the actual MCP client for anything you'd want to connect to.

The biggest advantage of this MCP proxy is that it keeps the MCP connections and their entire tool lists out of the agents context window. Shockingly just a few connections can eat up 15-20% of context (more if using local LLMs with smaller context windows).

I've also built a dedicated markdown mode for it, where it will index and parse repo markdown docs, giving the calling agent access to a table of contents and direct access to markdown sections, code blocks, etc.

My next job is to try and extend it's harness support. Currently its limited to just Claude and Codex, but I want to add VS Code, Pi, OpenCode, and maybe a few more.

As an example of what the calls and token savings look like:

● Bash(hypa dotnet build 2>&1 | tail -5)
  ⎿  ok (build succeeded)
     [hypa: 308→5 tok, -98%, reducer=dotnet-build]

● Bash(hypa dotnet test --filter "CodeIndex|MarkdownStructureProvider|CodeStructureProviderRegistry|CodeLanguageRegistry" 2>&1 | tail -20)
  ⎿  Test run for /home/matthew/development/atomic/Hypa/tests/Hypa.GoldenTests/bin/Debug/net10.0/Hypa.GoldenTests.dll (.NETCoreApp,Version=v10.0)
     Test run for /home/matthew/development/atomic/Hypa/tests/Hypa.IntegrationTests/bin/Debug/net10.0/Hypa.IntegrationTests.dll (.NETCoreApp,Version=v10.0)
     Test run for /home/matthew/development/atomic/Hypa/tests/Hypa.UnitTests/bin/Debug/net10.0/Hypa.UnitTests.dll (.NETCoreApp,Version=v10.0)
     Passed!  - Failed:     0, Passed:    10, Skipped:     0, Total:    10, Duration: 4 s - Hypa.UnitTests.dll (net10.0)
     [hypa: 683→185 tok, -73%, reducer=dotnet-test]

● Bash(hypa git diff HEAD~1 --name-only 2>/dev/null || git diff HEAD~1 --name-only)
  ⎿  src/Hypa.Cli/Commands/CodeCommand.cs
     src/Hypa.Runtime/Application/Services/CodeIndexService.cs
     src/Hypa.Sdk/CodeIntelligence/CodeIntelligenceModels.cs
     [hypa: 88→43 tok, -51%, reducer=git-diff]

  Searched for 3 patterns, read 1 file, listed 1 directory (ctrl+o to expand)

● Bash(hypa dotnet test tests/Hypa.UnitTests --no-build 2>&1 | tail -8)
  ⎿  Test run for /home/matthew/development/atomic/Hypa/tests/Hypa.UnitTests/bin/Debug/net10.0/Hypa.UnitTests.dll (.NETCoreApp,Version=v10.0)
     Passed!  - Failed:     0, Passed:  1299, Skipped:     0, Total:  1299, Duration: 29 s - Hypa.UnitTests.dll (net10.0)
     [hypa: 126→93 tok, -26%, reducer=dotnet-test]

Small gains individually but these really add up over the course of a session.

I'd love to get some other people using it and feedback on it. Hopefully some bug reports and suggestions on the tool parsers that people would like to see.

Full docs are available here Hypa — Open Source CLI Tool | Hypabolic

Hope to get some feedback from you all (even if you don't like it)


r/AskVibecoders 2d ago

I tried many tools and they all have strength and weaknesses - What tool or workflow do you prefer when vibe coding an and why

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r/AskVibecoders 2d ago

Cave Prompt: Making AI understand your requirements better

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r/AskVibecoders 2d ago

Cave Prompt: Making AI understand your requirements better

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r/AskVibecoders 2d ago

Vibe-coded my first app and shipped it - Not sure what to do next

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r/AskVibecoders 3d ago

Vibe coding isn’t insecure because AI writes bad code

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I recently went through a Claude security-audit session on an AI-built SaaS app, and the lesson was uncomfortable: the product looked real, the AI features worked, and there were no obvious leaked passwords, emails, or phone numbers, but the backend was still exposing sensitive business data because access control had not been treated as part of the build. What we found was not a dramatic “hacker exploit”; it was worse because it was boring: normal public client access could read AI-generated brand outputs, user-written AI prompts, product-research data, commercial metadata, public logo/asset URLs, and account/project linkage that should never be casually scrapeable. The AI provider keys and system prompts were not exposed, which is good, but that also proves the bigger point: vibe-coded apps can hide the obvious secrets correctly while still leaking the actual product data through bad defaults, missing RLS, permissive read policies, or untested storage rules. In the future this kind of issue can break much harder: today it might be “only” prompts and product research, tomorrow it could become customer profiles, invoices, private stores, API traces, support chats, embeddings, training data, or deanonymized user records once a protected table gets joined to a public one; if anonymous write/delete grants are also left open, the problem becomes integrity loss, not just privacy loss. The fix is not “stop using Claude” or “hide your anon key”; the fix is to stop prompting agents like designers and start prompting them like security-aware engineers. Every vibe-coded project should have a strict CLAUDE.md with a Security Rules section saying: every new table must include RLS/owner-scoped policies before the feature is considered done, public-read must be explicitly justified, anon writes are forbidden by default, service-role or secret keys must never appear in client code or NEXT_PUBLIC_*, storage buckets must declare public/private behavior, profile/auth-linked tables must be tested with real populated data, and every feature PR must include anonymous, authenticated-owner, and authenticated-non-owner access checks. Don’t leave this as vibes like “make it secure”; write it as a checklist Claude must follow. Then move repeatable checks into Claude Code skills: a /security-review skill for RLS, grants, storage, and env exposure; a /predeploy-verify skill that runs low-impact access-control tests; a /secret-scan skill for client bundles and environment usage; and a /responsible-disclosure-writeup skill that turns findings into sanitized lessons without naming live vulnerable targets. Vibe coding is powerful, but “it works” is not the finish line — the finish line is “I can prove another user, anonymous visitor, or scraper cannot read or mutate data they do not own.”


r/AskVibecoders 3d ago

My chief of staff, Folk

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Two months ago I made a deal with myself to stop being my own assistant. I'm fine at the actual work, I'm terrible at the layer underneath it, the remembering and scheduling and the forty small decisions a day that don't need me but still eat my attention. So I handed that whole layer to an agent that lives in my texts, getfolk.app, It runs in iMessage, with telegram and discord as options. This is the full setup, written out because a couple people asked how it works.

I'm not automating my work, I'm automating the layer underneath it. What's on today, what did I say I'd follow up on, which one email in a pile of forty actually matters, when am I free to meet this person, what was that thing I told myself to remember last Tuesday. None of it is hard. All of it is friction, and friction across a week is what wears you down.

The reason a texting interface works where every app I'd tried didn't is that I never have to go open anything. The agent sits in the same place as my group chat and my mom's messages, so handing it something is the same muscle as sending any other text. I actually do it, which is the thing every notes app and task manager I've ever set up failed at.

Around 7am it sends me one message. My calendar for the day, anything I flagged the day before, and the two or three things I told it mattered this week so they don't get buried under whatever is merely urgent. Then a triage of overnight messages and email, cut down to the handful that need a human, the rest grouped so I can skim and forget them. I read it before I'm out of bed. It replaced the twenty minutes I used to spend opening four apps to reconstruct my own day.

Through the day I just text it things as they hit me. A task, a link, a half-formed idea, a name. I don't decide where any of it goes, it files and sorts on its end. This is the part that changed the most, because the cost of capturing a thought dropped to zero, so I capture everything now instead of losing two thirds of it on the way to a notes app.

Reminders are plain sentences, "ping me about the landlord when i get home," and it works out the trigger instead of me setting a time and a label like it's 2010. For scheduling it holds the back and forth of finding a slot, the "when are you free" thread that goes nine messages deep, which is the single most annoying piece of admin in my week. It doesn't send anything without showing me first, which matters, more on that below.

The whole thing only works because the memory holds across weeks. I ask "what was that restaurant my sister mentioned in march" and it pulls it straight from the thread. No folders, no tags, no search syntax. This is where everything else I'd tried fell over, they were stateless and forgot me by the next day, so the second brain was really just a chat log. Memory that actually persists is the difference between a tool you query and one you offload to.

The one rule I set hard. The agent runs the operational layer, it does not make the calls. Anything that sets a relationship, commits money, or says something in my name gets drafted and shown to me, never sent on its own. The judgment stays mine, the typing and remembering and sorting go to it. The day I let it autonomously reply to people for real is the day it stops being a chief of staff and starts being a liability.

I'm not going to put a fake number on it. Honestly it's maybe an hour a day, but it's a specific hour, the death-by-a-thousand-cuts admin hour, not deep work. The bigger change is I stopped carrying a running list of small obligations in my head, which is harder to measure but worth more than the time.

Being straight about it. The discord integration is still rough on longer threads. It occasionally misreads a vague request and I have to rephrase. It's locked to what it does out of the box, so if you want to reach in and customize behavior heavily this isn't that. And it's 20 a month, so if a free notes app and your calendar already cover you, this is overkill. For me the point was never the most powerful possible system, it was one that still exists in six months because there's nothing to maintain.

Happy to share the exact morning-brief wording if anyone wants it.


r/AskVibecoders 3d ago

Ce que j’aurai aimé qu’on me dise avant de vibecoder

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Comme beaucoup je me suis lancé et j’ai dev une app ios et un site web. Attention, je n’ai pas la prétention d’être un dev, juste un mec qui tente des choses !
Voici ce que j’ai appris :

- les modèles d’ia : c’est la course, en vrai le plus important est pas de choisir entre gpt5 et opus8, c’est d’avoir un fichier de règles drastique
=> écrivez vos règles absolues pour votre projet, cadrez les choses, ce n’est pas du temps de perdu c’est du temps de gagné pour l’après !

- dette technique : Késako ? Le fait de prendre des chemins faciles pour arriver au but rapidement, mais de ne pas avoir une architecture robuste, erreur énorme
=> faites une fonctionnalité après l’autre, la tentation est tellement grande d’ouvrir 5 fenêtres et d’avoir l’impression d’avancer… si vous ne le faites pas, dans 2 mois votre produit sera fonctionnel mais impossible à maintenir, à la moindre mise à jour patatra

- les logs, les logs, les logs : branchez votre iphone sur xcode,
=> demandez à votre IA d’instrumenter tout, à chaque fois que vous testerez l’ia s’appuiera sur des vraies données et ne vous fera pas tourner en rond…

- mettez les ia en compétition : si vous tournez en rond sur un sujet, copiez collez les résultats dans une autre ia, vous serez parfois surpris par des approches différentes !

- une app/ un site n’est pas un modele économique
la seule question importante
=> je vends quoi à qui pour quel besoin, et y a t il déjà un marché qui existe avec de l’argent qui circule ?
Sinon vous codez vous codez, vous vous faites plaisir mais ça ne paiera jamais les factures

- imposez vous des pauses, ça parait con, mais quand vous enchainez une session de 15h (ça arrive très vite) si vous avez pas fait de pauses, vous êtes cramés, et votre entourage va souffrir…..

Voila, si ça peut aider ne serais ce qu’une personne ça sera déjà ça !


r/AskVibecoders 3d ago

TinyHarness available on Crates.io

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r/AskVibecoders 3d ago

How do you find your first real testers when you can’t post links in most communities?

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Built a free spelling app for kids (5–11) using AI — handwriting recognition, phonics audio, the works. It’s at spelling.live if you want to look.
Problem is my target users (parents and teachers) aren’t on tech forums. Every community I try either bans links or auto-removes posts as spam.
What actually worked for you to get your first real testers — not other devs, but the actual end users?


r/AskVibecoders 3d ago

Question related to python coding

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r/AskVibecoders 4d ago

Made this with Biscuit.so! Biscuit made all the images

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r/AskVibecoders 4d ago

claude.md is dead?!

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So,HTML is the new star?
Everyone talks about is they say that Claude.md is not good enough to explain claude code what and how to work
And html can explain it better because of headings,images,charts, and less text
what do you think?
Hoe exactly should I do the transition?