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Vibe-Coded Production Ready Apps
Stop treating AI tools like magic wands. Treat them like specialists. Master the strategy, not just the tools.
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Everyone's doing Lovable wrong. Here's why your complex features keep failing:
Most people try to force Lovable into doing everything. That’s the wrong approach. Lovable excels at one thing: making things look brilliant fast. Use it for that, then hand off the heavy lifting.
My workflow for production apps, with real users:
Phase 1: Architecture (Claude - free version is fine)
- Describe your full vision
- Ask: "What's the best technical architecture?"
- Follow up: "How should I structure the database?"
- Keep drilling: API optimisation, security, scaling
- Get a proper plan before writing a single line
Phase 2: Sanity Check (ChatGPT)
- Paste Claude's plan
- Ask for holes, improvements, alternatives
- Two AI opinions > one
Phase 3: Build (Cursor, or Lovable)
- Armed with your bulletproof plan
- Tell Cursor exactly what to build and how
- One feature at a time
- No guesswork, just execution
This isn't a no-code magic trick.
Yes, it requires database knowledge. Yes, it takes practice. But once you nail this workflow, you'll wonder why you ever tried cramming everything into one tool.
Stop treating AI tools like magic wands. Treat them like specialists.
Master the strategy, not just the tools.