AI-directed development guide

Architecture Before Vibe Coding: How to Build an AI App Without Drift

You do not need to know every framework. But your coding agent must not invent product decisions every time a new chat begins.

Settle the first user moment

Name what a user arrives with, what the product does, what useful result they receive, and what meaningful action they can take next.

Keep product authority visible

Before the next coding task, settle the product promise, user roles, source of truth, scope boundary, and decisions that cannot silently change.

Use agents as implementers, not product owners

A leader can interpret the package and compare it with repository reality. An executor can make bounded changes and report evidence. The human returns only for product, trust, authority, or scope decisions.

Turn discoveries into controlled changes

When code exposes a new fact, record what changed and whether it is an implementation choice, an architecture hypothesis, or a human decision. Do not rewrite the product because a tool made a tempting suggestion.

Your app may not need another feature.

It may need one trustworthy definition of what the product is, what should survive, and what your coding agent should build next.