The four P's of vibe coding
1. The four P's of vibe coding
Now we're gonna talk about the four Ps of vibe coding. And this is a structured approach for prompting. You don't have to follow it exactly, but it can be a useful framework if you're brand new to vibe coding. And so my four P approach is plan, prompt, polish, and publish. We're gonna break this down and we're gonna talk about each P. The things we need to consider when we're vibe coding is who are we building for, what are we building, and why are we building it. Now, sometimes that means taking one step back in order to take two steps forward, and that's what we're doing in the plan phase. It's really all about figuring out our idea and figuring out how we're going to get to where we want to go. Often that might even include understanding what we're building or the different components that go into our application. After we plan, we're going to prompt. Now, prompting works well when it's specific, concise, and has the right context. That's something we'll talk about more in the course. A quality prompt means you'll get quality results, that's really important, a prompt is crucial, specifically the starting prompt, but also the follow up prompts that we use. After we prompt, we're going to polish our application. That's our role, right? Quality control. We saw that agent helped us test and evaluate our app as well as read the error logs that came through, but we have to be the ultimate arbiter of whether our app is good enough or not. And that's another important concept, good enough versus perfect. What are we trying to accomplish? When is good enough versus when are we spinning our wheels trying to perfect something that might not be important for reaching our end goal. And finally publish, taking it live, our go to market, we're gonna talk about that in the final portion of this course, but that's the last step in our process. Now we're going to apply this to our more complex application, which is our form builder app. That includes an admin panel and our form editor. So what good vibe coding looks like? There are some things to remember. First, vibe coding is a brand new concept, and so a lot of the things you're doing in this course are being done for the very first time, and that means you might bump into errors or there might be some rough edges. That leads into my second point, which is that failure is okay. I fail all the time. And as you saw in the very first lesson of this course, you can expect some errors and expect some things not to work. That's all right. But it just means we have to be clever about how we approach solutions and really think from first principles, which you're gonna learn throughout the course. And finally, progress starts with a single step. We're breaking problems down. We're thinking from first principles, and really we're building up to what will be the final output. And so throughout the course, we're gonna take things one step at a time, we're gonna build on small wins to get to bigger goals, and we're gonna walk away with a complex application and an understanding of what it takes to build a complete, robust, full stack web application. But now onto the next lesson.2. Let's practice!
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