Author(s): Usman Writes

Originally published on Towards AI.

Here are five things developers do that vibe coders should really start doing. And the last one is the one almost every vibe coder skips.

Vibe coders get a lot of shit from old-school developers. And while some of it comes off as just not really wanting to get with the times, some of it really makes sense.

Beyond the intro, the article argues that vibe coders should adopt core “old-school” engineering habits: run proper security checks (don’t trust AI blindly, and verify access and secrets), test beyond the happy path using realistic and messy user inputs across devices, optimize performance (especially load times and image sizes) so users don’t bounce, use rate limiting to prevent abuse and runaway costs from AI features or login attempts, and plan before building by defining the target users, problem, pages, and data needs—because having even a simple plan outperforms random prompt-driven iteration.

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