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🛠️ MVP Weekend Manifesto

Danila Verbinsky — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:00:00 +0000

🚀 Not just vibe coding. Vibe engineering.

This isn’t about sipping coffee, typing some AI-generated code, and calling it a day.

This is about building real things.

From scratch. From chaos. From an idea in your head to something people can click, tap, or break.

It’s not about letting AI build for you — it’s about building faster, deeper, and smarter with AI as your copilot.

🎯 Why this series?

Because:

One person + AI is already a small team.
MVPs don’t need months — just momentum.
Real learning comes from doing, shipping, and debugging at 2AM.
Done > Perfect. Always.

This is a challenge to myself — and maybe to you too:

What can we actually ship in a weekend?

👨‍💻 Who is it for?

Devs who are tired of tutorials and want real-world chaos.
Makers who start too many projects and finish too few.
Engineers who want to build like artists — fast, emotional, imperfect, but real.

Whether you're indie hacking, portfolio building, or just having fun — you're welcome here.

🧠 How it works

Each MVP Weekend post will include:

🧩 A simple idea (or a dumb one — those work too)
⚒️ Tools used (code, platforms, AI assistants)
🧪 What worked, what failed, what barely held together
🚀 Code, demo, maybe even a launch

Sometimes it’ll be clean.

Sometimes it’ll be duct-taped.

But it’ll always be real.

💡 Why MVP Weekend?

Because a weekend is short enough to stay focused — but long enough to change something.

Let’s see what we can build in 48 hours, with coffee, curiosity, and just enough chaos.

👉 Follow the series.

💬 Drop your ideas.

🛠️ Build your own.

And remember: Don’t just code the vibe. Engineer it.

Vibe Engineering: Why It's the Next Step After Vibe Coding

Danila Verbinsky — Tue, 06 May 2025 12:15:02 +0000

What is Vibe Coding?

"Vibe coding" is a term coined in February 2025 by Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI. It describes a coding style where a developer "fully surrenders to the vibe, forgetting that code even exists." The idea is to describe what you want in natural language, and large language models (LLMs) generate the corresponding code for you.

This approach gained traction with tools like Cursor, which now generates over a billion lines of code daily and is used by companies such as Stripe, OpenAI, and Spotify. Apple has also partnered with Anthropic to bring "vibe coding" into its Xcode development environment.

The Problems With Vibe Coding

While convenient and fast, vibe coding comes with significant drawbacks:

The AI-generated code can be buggy, inefficient, or insecure.
Developers may not fully understand what the code is doing, making debugging and maintenance harder.
Over-reliance on AI can lead to technical debt and lower product quality.
The approach often lacks structure, leading to brittle or unscalable architectures.

Enter Vibe Engineering

Vibe engineering offers a more thoughtful and structured alternative. It's about maintaining the creativity and fun of coding with AI, but grounding it in solid engineering principles. Instead of generating code on impulse, engineers:

Plan and design the system architecture before coding.
Use AI for automation of routine tasks, not as a crutch for the entire workflow.
Ensure they fully understand, validate, and test the code they deploy.
Focus on performance, security, scalability, and maintainability.

In vibe engineering, AI is a partner—not a replacement—for deep technical thinking and responsible design.

Why Vibe Engineering Is Better

Vibe Coding	Vibe Engineering
Fast, spontaneous	Thoughtful, intentional
Code may lack structure	Code is well-architected
Short-term velocity	Long-term maintainability
Developer is often passive	Developer is active and in control
High risk of bugs or tech debt	Built with quality and resilience

Vibe engineering respects both the art and the science of software development. It’s jazz with theory, not just noise.

Conclusion

Vibe coding democratized and accelerated software creation, but it also introduced chaos and complexity when used carelessly. Vibe engineering is the natural evolution—bringing purpose, clarity, and professionalism to AI-assisted development.

So next time you open your editor, don’t just vibe code—vibe engineer.

Inspired by insights from Andrej Karpathy, Cursor.dev, FT, Reuters, and the developer community.

What if ...?

Danila Verbinsky — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 08:24:34 +0000

Preamble

After witnessing the Rabbit R1 presentation at CES 2024, I couldn't help but question the necessity of a new device when our current smartphones boast impressive capabilities. While the R1 showcased less powerful hardware compared to modern phones, its software left a lasting impression.

It made me ponder why mobile developers, over the extensive history of Android and iOS, haven't presented similarly innovative concepts. With this in mind, I'd like to share an idea that has been brewing.

Idea

What if collectively, all mobile and web developers unite to create a standardized interface for AI? Imagine a single file, a straightforward JSON, where developers instruct AI on how to interact with their respective applications. By implementing just one method to retrieve this JSON, we could enable seamless interaction between AI and apps.

I acknowledge that this idea is in its early stages and might have challenges, but I believe it holds merit. I welcome your thoughts and any potential enhancements to this concept.

Why the real metaverse is doomed to never appear.

Danila Verbinsky — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 20:10:44 +0000

Well, I'm open to criticism, but I want to discuss why the true metaverse never comes. Let's start with terminology. The Metaverse is a permanent virtual space in which people can interact with each other and with digital objects through their avatars using virtual reality technologies. Interaction can take place with the help of various technological devices, both with the help of traditional personal computers and with virtual and augmented reality headsets.
I also want to add some of my thoughts. The Metaverse shouldn't be dependent on any big company like Facebook or Microsoft, as that would bring it all down to business. It seems to me that the metaverse should be supplementable by ordinary users or other programmers, and for this you need some kind of standard library or utility for free development.