10 things I learned writing 49,000 words about vibe coding

This article details a 31-day experiment of building a production-ready sports card collection app, collectyourcards.com, entirely with AI (Claude Code). The author outlines ten key lessons learned, emphasizing that humans should act as architects and define the specifications while AI functions as a junior developer executing those plans. Crucially, the author advocates for rigorous practices like version control, detailed feature specifications, phased development, and proactive observability to ensure quality and prevent issues with AI-generated code – remembering AI excels at the "happy path" but requires explicit prompting for robustness and security.