Part 5 of 7 · how to code with AI

Anti-Patterns

The five most common failure modes amateurs walk into.

6 lessons·~90 seconds each

Each is named, dissected, and corrected. The 'what NOT to do' companion to part 3 — read this when you can feel yourself losing the session.

The single least productive prompt in vibe coding.

First drafts are starting points. Treating them as endpoints is the bug.

If you can't point to the line that changed, you didn't iterate.

When the same prompt fails three times, the prompt is wrong, not the engine.

'Best' is a constraint you forgot to define.

One prompt, one concern. Always.