A public service announcement

ShipResponsibly.

You vibecoded an app in 20 minutes.
Someone just called it "critical infrastructure."

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Surgeon General's Warning

Vibecoding has been found to cause unreasonable confidence in first-time developers, leading to the deployment of untested software to unsuspecting humans.

Side effects may include: mass credential exposure, invoices sent to the wrong continent, and the mass psychological event known as "it works on my machine."

Know Your Risk Level

The Responsibility Spectrum

Level 1
A script that renames your vacation photos
Ship it
Level 2
A Chrome extension your team "kind of" relies on
Hm, maybe review it
Level 3
An internal tool that touches customer data
Stop vibing, start reading
Level 4
A payments flow you described as "pretty solid"
Dear god, no
Level 5
Medical software you built over a long weekend
Call a lawyer
Self Assessment

Are You Shipping Under the Influence?

Five quick questions. No judgment. Okay, some judgment.

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The Confessional

Vibecoding Horror Stories

Real stories of vibecoded software gone wrong. Your shame is someone else's lesson.

Payments
"I vibecoded a Stripe integration for a client. Three weeks later I found out it was double-charging every transaction. The refund process took longer than writing the app."
Anonymous, freelance developer
Security
"Built an internal HR tool over a weekend. It worked great until someone pointed out that every employee's salary was visible in the browser console."
Anonymous, ops lead at a Series B startup
Data Loss
"My AI agent had full access to my email. I asked it to 'clean up my inbox.' It archived 3 months of client correspondence. Some of those threads had active deals."
Anonymous, founder
Got a story?
Submitted. Your pain will save someone else's weekend.
Take the Pledge

The Responsible Shipper's Oath

I solemnly swear to read my own code before deploying it, to never describe a payments integration as "vibes-based," and to remember that users are real people who did not consent to being beta testers.

The Playbook

You Know Your Score.
Now Fix It.

Not another ebook. A complete toolkit for the vibecoding era.

01
The Responsibility Scorecard
A downloadable template to assess any project before you deploy. Who uses this? What data does it touch? What breaks if it goes down? Fill it out in 10 minutes. Prevent a disaster in zero.
02
The Graduation Checklist
The exact steps to take your vibecoded prototype from "works on my machine" to "safe for other humans." Check for exposed API keys, add bare-minimum error handling, run the one security scan that actually matters. Copy-paste ready.
03
30 Responsible Prompts
Battle-tested prompt templates that bake in security from the start. Stop prompting "build me a login page" and start prompting for bcrypt hashing, rate limiting, and CSRF protection. Paste into Claude, Cursor, or Codex and immediately build better software.
04
The Friday 4:47 PM Decision Tree
A one-page visual flowchart. "Should I ship this?" Five questions, one clear answer. Print it. Tape it next to your monitor. Let it save your weekend.
05
Real Horror Stories + Postmortems
Actual cases of vibecoded software that hurt real people. Each one includes what was built, what went wrong, the exact decision point where one choice would have prevented it, and the Ship Responsibly principle it violates.
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Agent Authorization
Building with AI agents? This bonus chapter covers how to scope permissions, delegate safely, and revoke access when things go sideways. Built on principles from the APOA protocol.
$19
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PDF + ePub + templates. Read it in an afternoon. Ship better by Monday.