Book

Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond

Gene Kim and Steve Yegge · IT Revolution Paid Advanced

From the author of The Phoenix Project and a veteran of Google and Amazon, this is the serious take on moving AI-assisted code from a demo to something real users touch. It is the resource for the far end of your journey, when the app matters enough that the day you cannot debug it really does mean bringing in an engineer. Read it when you are ready to think about reliability, not just speed.

  • Intent and flow matter, but production still demands engineering discipline
  • There are repeatable patterns for keeping AI-built systems maintainable
  • Knowing when to bring in real engineering is part of the skill

The question it answers

  1. How do I use AI code generation tools like Cursor to go beyond what pure no-code allows without becoming a full-time developer?

Read with it

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  2. A leading early-stage Indian VC firm answering the questions founders wish they could ask a VC face-to-face, including how they... Prime Venture Partners Podcast Podcast · 30-50 min per episode Prime Venture Partners Podcast: Fundraising Masterclass for Founders Prime Venture Partners
  3. This is the two sentence post that named the whole category you are deciding about, from an OpenAI co-founder. Read it to... Andrej Karpathy (X) Thread · 1 min read The original "vibe coding" tweet Andrej Karpathy
  4. A clear, tool by tool guide to turning an idea into a working prototype in minutes, aimed at people who do not code. It sorts... Lenny's Newsletter Article · 25 min read A guide to AI prototyping for product managers Colin Matthews
  5. This is the clearest working mental model for exactly your situation: treat the AI as a fast, over-confident pair programmer... Simon Willison's Weblog Essay · 20 min read Here's how I use LLMs to help me write code Simon Willison
  6. Osmani is a Google engineering leader, and this book draws the exact line your question cares about: the spectrum from... O'Reilly (beyond.addy.ie) Book Beyond Vibe Coding: From Coder to AI-Era Developer Addy Osmani
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