Breaking Down Big Problems

Part of the Vibe Coding: Fundamentals course

You have an idea for something real now, maybe a whole app. The temptation is to describe the entire thing to the AI in one giant request and hope it hands you a finished product. It will not. You learned in lesson 1 that the AI does its best work on small, focused tasks, and a whole app is neither.

The single most useful idea here is the MVP, short for minimum viable product: the smallest version of your idea that a real person could use and get value from. Not the version you dream about. The stripped-down version that still does the one thing that matters. ...