Thoughts on AI, bootstrapping and learning to code.
Basically all the tasks I prepared are so trivial that there's no point continuing with them. Sounds bold for 4 days of vibe coding experience, but if the hardest part was configuring databases, n8n automations, or checking API keys in Vercel — something's up. Time to change the plan to something more ambitious.
Read more→I'm gaining more and more confidence using Cursor and Claude Code. Running vibe coding in parallel on multiple tasks, not just one at a time, so things simply move faster. Before I was doing one task at a time because I wanted to make sure nothing breaks, but I see it handles it fine — time to pick up the pace.
Read more→I thought creating a more complex game like chess would be significantly harder for Cursor and Claude Code. I wanted not just a board and chess pieces, but timed games, play against the computer, and multiple board skins. Turns out it's simple with a good initial prompt.
Read more→I thought it would take much longer, that Cursor with Claude Code would struggle and sweat, but it turns out these were by far the easiest tasks of all so far. Nothing to configure, zero Supabase setup or API key work.
Read more→The next task on my list was building my own private Airtable with all tasks — meant to be my to-do list, but more refined, with difficulty levels and actual completion times. Managed to do it in basically an hour. Zero problems.
Read more→Created my own mini-CMS with a login panel, password recovery, and content management for blog posts published here. Turned out well. A taste of what you'd call a management system. Most importantly, I'm glad I learned a new tool — Supabase.
Read more→I'm facing the reality of being a "programmer" — the frustration when something was supposed to work but doesn't, hunting for details and bugs in code I leave to AI. At least every error gets interpreted and translated into specific fixes...
Read more→Overnight my brain kept working and in the morning I wrote down a dozen projects I want to build while learning vibe coding. From hooking up an X feed, through a Supabase blog, newsletter, games, online chess, payments, to data visualizations from job boards and a CV generator. All on one site — we're building a Frankenstein.
Read more→For the past few weeks I kept thinking about finally stopping the talk about what AI can't do in programming, and actually trying to build something on my own. Over the weekend I put together a paper manual for programming with AI, spent hours talking to Claude Opus 4.6 about tech stacks, installations, hosting, and GitHub. Printed a 30-page handbook and got started. Domain purchase, Vercel, installations, first prompt in Cursor, first commit, deploy — 5.5 hours and nowosielski.ai went live.
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