Tools of the Trade: Setting Up for Success

Part of the Vibe Coding course

Ask ten people who are productive with AI coding tools what their setup is and you will get ten different answers, none of them exotic. What they share is not the tooling. It is the time between having an idea and knowing whether it worked. For them it is seconds.

A workshop has a bench, a set of tools, and someone to hand you things. Your workspace has three surfaces, and a vibe coder moves between them constantly rather than settling into one. ...