I spent 3 hours last night watching an AI tool break my dashboard that was already working It started with a tiny bug: user settings were not saving when the page reloaded Instead of slowing down, I asked Claude to fix it right there inside the main dashboard file. That was my mistake The model went into a spiral. It changed my state logic, broke the top navigation, wiped out my CSS styling, and threw 4 new error screens in my face A 2-minute fix turned into me spending midnight hitting undo and throwing away code just to get the screen to open again. I stopped doing this completely after making 1 hard rule: Never let an AI edit your live pages when debugging tricky logic. Now, whenever an AI tool fails on the first prompt, I run the test-page gauntlet: - Spin up a blank /test page: I tell cursor or lovable to leave the main app alone and create an empty route at /test. My working pages stay untouched - Put 3 simple checks on the screen: I have the model print 3 pass/fail boxes right in the browser: Box 1 checks the login token, Box 2 prints the exact JSON payload being sent, and Box 3 shows the server reply - Spot the exact red box: I loaded /test and Box 2 lit up red immediately. A field name was spelled wrong in the payload. Fixing it took 1 line Once all 3 boxes turned green on /test, I copied that single clean function back into the main dashboard. The dashboard stayed clean. Nothing broke. I did not lose any working code. When an AI breaks something in your project, do you let it keep thrashing in place, or do you move the bug to a blank page?

I spent 2 weeks writing a 24- page pdf guide last year, and it was a complete waste of time. Over 400 people downloaded it Exactly 2 people ever replied, and 0 turned into consulting clients. Most people saved the file straight to their downloads folder and never opened it. what i realized is nobody reads 20 pages on an iphone to answer a 2-minute question. I only fixed my lead capture when I replaced static downloads with an interactive 1-page tool that solves a single problem in 30 seconds. - Scaffolding the tool in lovable: I build a 1-page calculator that estimates cloud API costs based on 3 input sliders. The calculation runs client-side with instant numbers on screen - Delayed email capture: Users see their estimated monthly spend immediately. If they want to export the config file or email the report, they enter their email. The capture triggers after they have their number - Automated delivery via autoDM: I schedule a short breakdown post on linkedin via blotato. When someone comments the keyword audit, it sends the direct web link into their inbox automatically My opt-in rate went from 3% on the PDF to 28% on the calculator A working tool that answers one specific question in 30 seconds beats an unread document every time. When you offer resources to your audience, are you still sending static pdfs, or have you tested interactive tools?

I spent over $180 across 3 different vibe coding platforms this year before I canceled every subscription The problem was always the same: I would be 45 minutes into debugging an interactive dashboard, and the tool would hit an arbitrary credit limit The platform locked my session, demanded another $20 upgrade, and kept my code trapped inside their proprietary web editor I only got full control when I moved to a self-hosted vibe coding stack. Instead of paying a third party for compute markups, I deployed the open-source vibesdk directly on my own cloudflare infrastructure. Today, my personal app generation pipeline runs on 3 simple layers: - Cloudflare workers runtime: I deployed vibesdk to cloudflare workers using D1 for database storage and KV for fast session state. The worker handles the multi-step generation loop: planning the user flows, drafting the component files, and self-correcting syntax errors - Wildcard preview routing: I mapped a single wildcard CNAME record (*.mybrand.com) to the worker. Every time I prompt a new tool idea, the system spins up an isolated preview subdomain in 15 seconds - Raw model gateway: I route the generation prompts through cloudflare AI gateway straight to gemini and claude. I pay raw API token prices with zero monthly platform fee Once the core logic is validated on the preview subdomain, I export the full repository straight to github and finish production hardening in claude code My monthly vibe-coding bill dropped from $60 a seat to about $3 in raw API tokens, and I never get locked out mid-build Are you still paying monthly subscriptions for browser AI builders, or have you started running open-source developer tooling on your own cloud accounts?

Hopefully this post topic is okay... if not sorry and feel free to remove. So last year I was focused on a youtube channel and I developed tools to help creators find their niche and develop their channel and it featured AI integration to tailor the tool to the individual. It went NO WHERE. I had made videos about the concept, and created a free software tool with paid add on featuers. There simply did not seem to be an audiance for the tools I was making. Now, this at first sound unrelated but it ties in... At the same time 5 seperate people asked me for help with something I had done in the past while I worked as a pilot. That is to develop a safety managment system for their company. The thing is, to do that you really need to know the individual company well. So then I descided, what if I adapted my tool I made for YouTubers, but instead made a tool that asked aviation companies questions about their operation and helped them develop and run their own safety management system. There is a new deadline that requires a whole bunch of small aviations companies to have something by May 2027. So I became super focused, I set up a formal company (FlyWise SMS), got my first client (who pays monthy for the service) and he was so pleased with what I provided that his company just asked me to help with another related task for an additional $15K. And I am getting other interest as well from other companies now. FlyWise SMS actually resulted in 2 spin off projects (1 is a 2nd company in itself, and the other might become one too). It required a lot of push, I had to teach myself some new programing skills, though I already had software developing experiance. I descided to hyperfocus on the development and stayed put on a 5 acre isolated property in the Philipeans and build the whole first pass of a multi-tenant software as a service tool in 34 days. I am a short sleeper and it is all I did (other than eat and sleep and adopt a stray kitten) for that time period and while I was developing it I made $0. But I stayed focused. There was still more to be done after that window of time but that was the big push.

I spent weeks writing technical posts that completely tanked on mobile. I was spending 2 hours drafting in obsidian, testing the snippets, and checking the architecture On my desktop monitor, the drafts looked clean Then I opened one of the live posts on my iphone, it was unreadable. A 4-sentence paragraph had stretched into 14 lines of unbroken text. Readers on linkedin saw zero whitespace and scrolled away in 2 seconds The code was solid, but nobody reads a solid wall of text on a 6-inch glass screen. I only fixed the retention when I stopped guessing line breaks and started using a layout grid. Today, I run a 3-tool workflow that separates the writing from the mobile formatting: - Raw capture in obsidian: I dump my terminal outputs, error logs, and architecture notes into local markdown without worrying about line breaks - Fluff removal in claude: I run the draft through claude with a strict prompt to cut passive voice, strip filler words, and keep sentences under 15 words - Layout extraction: I grab the structural skeleton from posts in blotato and that held high engagement on linkedin. It strips away the author's words and leaves the whitespace grid: a 1-line tension opener, a 2-line problem frame, 3 short mechanism bullets, and a diagnostic closer I drop my cleaned notes straight into that empty grid and schedule the post The structure makes the post scannable in 45 seconds on an iphone, while the substance stays 100% technical. My drafting time dropped from 2 hours of manual reformatting down to 15 minutes of review. When you post technical work online, do you write freestyle into a blank box, or do you draft inside a fixed layout grid?