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"Make this page work on phones": the one tag most prompts forget

Ninety percent of "it's tiny on mobile" is one missing tag. Here's "make this page work on phones" three ways, with the real code — from a lonely media query to a proper mobile-first layout.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 6 min

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"Send a daily summary email": the prompt that avoids the spam list

A naive "send a daily email" loop fires at the wrong time, breaks on one bad address, and can email someone a hundred times. Here's the request three ways, with the real code, and the guards that keep you off spam lists.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 6 min

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"Write the RLS policy for my users table": three prompts, three outcomes

Row Level Security is deny-by-default, so the danger isn't forgetting to lock a table — it's a lazy policy that quietly unlocks all of them. Here's the request three ways, with the real SQL each produced.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 6 min

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"Add a Stripe checkout button": the prompt that leaks your secret key

The naive way to vibe-code a Stripe button puts your secret key in every visitor's browser. Here's the same request three ways, with the real code — and the one rule that separates a demo from a safe checkout.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 6 min

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"Add login with Supabase": the same prompt, three ways

Every vibe coder types "add login with Supabase" and gets working code. Here's what changes when you ask for it vaguely, specifically, and with the guardrails spelled out — with the real code each version produced.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 6 min

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Stop prompting patch-on-patch — sometimes a fresh spec beats a fifth fix

The vibe-coder trap is fixing AI code until it's a knot. When a clean rewrite wins over another patch, shown with a real before-and-after and a simple rule for deciding.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 5 min

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You're paying for the smartest model to rename a button

Most AI tools let you pick a model, and the wrong pick burns time and money. When a fast, cheap model is plenty, and when a slow, thinking one earns its keep.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 5 min

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The AI says "I fixed the login." Here's how to check what it actually changed

You don't need to write code to vibe code, but you do need to read it. Three things to look for in a diff — logged secrets, scope creep, silent data changes. Try reading one.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 5 min

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The AI's first answer is a draft, not a verdict — make it attack its own code

The habit that separates people who ship safe apps from people who ship bugs: generate, then ask the model to break what it just wrote. Shown with a real before-and-after.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 5 min

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The words you add to a prompt are the product — watch one go from vague to shippable

The single biggest upgrade to vibe coding is treating a prompt as a spec. See the same request go vague → specific → constrained, with the real code each version produced. Try building one.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 5 min