The Vibe Coder's Survival Guide: How to Build with AI Without Accidentally Creating a Haunted Software Mansion

By Joshua Arebalo

AI can help you build faster than ever.

That is the good news.

The bad news is that it can also help you build a sprawling, glowing, over-engineered software mansion with duplicate hallways, mysterious switches, and a dashboard that looks like it could launch a submarine.

The Vibe Coder's Survival Guide is a funny, dramatic, and practical field guide for anyone building with AI. Whether you are coding an app, creating a business tool, designing a workflow, writing content, launching a product, or simply trying to make one good idea real, this book helps you avoid the most common trap of AI-assisted creation:

Building more instead of building better.

Inside, you will learn why "just one more feature" is never just one more feature, why dashboards can become decorative anxiety, why logs should confess instead of perform, why deleting is a form of building, and why the human is still responsible for taste, judgment, and direction.

This is not a technical manual for elite programmers. It is a survival guide for builders, founders, freelancers, creators, tinkerers, and ambitious humans who have discovered that AI can turn a simple idea into a full-blown project before lunch.

With sharp humor, practical checklists, memorable rules, and hard-earned lessons, this guide shows you how to use AI without letting the project become a haunted mansion of features, settings, dashboards, and unfinished ideas.

AI gives you acceleration.

This guide helps you arrive.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H856LZ6K
• ISBN13: 9798185898864
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 66 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"