In this episode, you’ll discover how to leverage artificial intelligence to bring your software ideas to life. You will understand how proper documentation guides AI to generate functional code. You will learn how to make AI create software that truly adapts to your unique vision. You will see the power of automating the initial coding phase, freeing you to focus on refinement. Watch now to unlock the potential of AI-driven development.
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Welcome back. This is Part Four of the VIBE coding guide, or at least how I do it. In Part One, we talked about the Misean Plus, the tools you would need, and asking good questions. Part Two, we looked at the requirements gathering process. Part Three, we talked about the work plan process and building out the work plan, making sure it’s super detailed. This is Part Four, where we’re actually going to put the code into action.
What we should have: we should have our coding environment. We should have our Product Requirements Document. We should have our work plan document. Now, the last thing that we’re going to do in here that we need to have in place are the rules. We need to have the rules for how the coding environment itself should work.
I’m using a tool called Klein. Klein is a semi-autonomous coding tool. It’s free. It’s Visual Studio Code. And you can see from the Misean Plus, we had LM Studio set up as our model. Let me just make sure that we’re on the correct one, because LM Studio—yes, I’m on Quinn3. I need to create the Klein rules file. This uses a process from Klein itself, from Kleinbot, called Memory Bank. We’re going to call this Klein Rules. I’m going to move it up one level. And I need to change the name to add a dot up front, like so. This now tells Klein how to behave, and it should run through its process.
Let’s talk about what’s in the Klein rules. This is called Memory Bank. What Memory Bank allows the tool to have is it allows it to have memory. This one is modified for me. So, it says there’s a PRD, which is our Product Requirements Document. There’s a work plan. There’s a polish folder. And then the memory systems that the tool will use to record its progress as it’s coding. Because if we’re doing this right, AI tools, generative AI models, have no memory. I’ve called them for the longest time the world’s smartest, most forgetful interns. They have no memory. But in an agentic system like this, we can give them a memory. We just have to fake it by saying we’re going to read and write your progress as you’re working to these files that we’ve put in place.
Klein’s got its rules, and then we’ve got our documents there. This, again, is why it was so important to have the process of building up the PRD and the work plan. If we didn’t have that, LM Studio and the Quinn3 model is a good model, but it’s not as smart as a big state-of-the-art foundation model. Without those pre-existing documents, it will make a lot of mistakes. It will make code that just completely does not run. It will make basically garbage. With that, all it’s got to do is follow the instructions in the very detailed work plan. So, we’re going to say, “Implement the work plan in workplan.md.” Exactly.
Now, it should immediately—and we can see it is talking to LM Studio locally. It is running on my local AI. It’s going to have a conversation with it. It’s going to pass data to it, and then it’s going to start going back and forth and actually building the code following the work plan. This will take some time. It says, “Look at the environment details.” It opened the docs. You can see it’s beginning to do its processing.
And thus, our VIBE coding project has come to an end. We can see that it has gone through and created all of the pieces. So, we’re done? No, we’re not done. We have essentially done the first draft, just the very first draft of the code, but it exists. It exists, and now it can be cleaned up, edited, processed, debugged, and all that stuff. But it now exists where it didn’t exist before.
With no actual coding on my own part, but the idea, the requirements, the work plan, and AI to basically do the typing, we’ve created something that didn’t exist before. This is the power of generative AI. This is the power of these tools to bring to life things that we didn’t have before, or in the case of Data Diarist and its predecessor, Data Slayer, we had it and we lost it. It stopped existing. So, we can now revive it, resurrect it, and bring it into the world once more, but in our way of doing it, our specific way.
This, I think, is one of the critical parts about this style of generative AI and these kinds of projects. It’s not just making a copycat; it’s making it with our point of view, the way that we think the world should work. That you and I have our particular point of view about how analytics works, how data layers work, how you do anything, how you write blog posts. You have a point of view. The software that you use today was not built with your point of view. The software that you use today, in a lot of ways, asks you to conform to its way of view. Have you ever had that experience, particularly working in stuff like CRM or marketing automation, where it forces you to adapt your business to it instead of the other way around? This is what generative AI changes. Generative AI says, “No, you do it your way, and you make the software adapt to your business.” That’s what’s so powerful about this.
In the next part, in the final part, we’re going to do the debugging process, because, oh boy, are there going to be a lot of bugs. I guarantee this software is not usable as is. We’re going to go through the debugging and QA process. Stay tuned for that. Thanks for tuning in. Talk to you on the next one.
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