The Secret To Build Better Apps With AI That Nobody Talks About

Stop Over-complicating Your Vibe Coding Workflow

There’s a pattern I’ve noticed in a lot of early AI builders.

They jump into Bolt, Cursor, Claude Code, Replit, or any of their preferred one.

They write a few natural-language instructions

They get the feeling that “AI will figure out the rest”

And then 45 minutes later, they’re staring at a folder structure that makes no sense.

New components appear out of nowhere.

Database fields don’t match.

Routes are inconsistent.

And the AI seems confused about what problem it’s even solving.

If you’ve experienced this, it’s not a skill issue.

It’s not even a “AI tools hallucinate sometimes” issue.

It’s something much simpler:

There is no shared reference point between you and your AI co-pilot.

You have an idea in your head.

Your AI has a partial understanding of that idea.

And every time the context resets or you switch tools, the interpretation changes again.

This is why vibe coding works beautifully for the first 30 minutes, and then collapses the moment you ask the AI to extend, revise, or scale anything.

Let’s Fix That Using A Simple PRD

A PRD: ProJecT reQuirEmenTs DocUmenT

It sounds formal, but for solo AI builders it’s not a corporate document.

It’s just this:

• What you’re building

• Why you’re building it

• The tech stack

• The core features

• The database schema

• The constraints

• The non-negotiables

Once you write this down and feed it to any AI coding tool, everything changes:

The AI finally understands context.

It stops “guessing” your intentions.

It builds consistently.

It maintains the same structure across sessions and tools.

And it stops reinventing the architecture every time you regenerate.

This is the moment most beginners transform from “vibe coders” to “intentional builders.”

But there’s one more piece that most people overlook.

A Hack I Used As a Beginner

There’s a prompt I discovered early on that changed everything for me.

It works beautifully when you’re not even sure what you should clarify and you want the AI to guide the questioning.

Paste the below prompt in the end, after whatever TF you said to your AI co-pilot:

Do not make any changes until, you have 95% confidence that you know exactly what to build. Ask me follow-up questions until you have that confidence.

What does this do?

It forces your AI co-pilot to stop assuming.

It shifts the burden of clarity from you to the model.

Even if you don’t know what questions to ask, the AI does.

It will surface the hidden things you forgot to mention:

• database fields

• user roles

• edge cases

• deployment constraints

• UI behavior

• integrations

• routing logic

• state management decisions

This one line makes your AI “think like a senior engineer” instead of a guess-and-go intern.

And this is the perfect moment to insert it right when most builders realize their biggest problem is actually ambiguity.

Why Beginners Struggle (And Why PRDs Solve It)

Let’s break it down with a real example.

Someone recently tried building an Astro-powered blog using AI:

• Dark, modern UI

• PocketBase backend

• Admin dashboard

• Tags, categories, permalinks

• SEO metadata

• Netlify deployment

Nothing extremely complex.

But because he didn’t have a PRD, every tool built a different version of the project:

Cursor invented fields that didn’t exist.

Bolt rearranged the structure.

Claude forgot half the SEO logic.

Deployments kept failing.

The database was inconsistent in every run.

Once he wrote a PRD and fed it to every tool?

Suddenly everything aligned.

Bolt built the UI properly.

Claude structured the backend perfectly.

Deployment instructions were consistent.

Schema mismatches disappeared.

Feature extensions became predictable.

Same builder. Same tools.

Only difference: the AI now understood the full picture.

The Real Benefit: A Single Source of Truth

A PRD gives you:

1. A consistent mental model

   Your AI finally knows the boundaries of the project.

2. Tool-switching freedom

   Claude Code → Bolt → Cursor → VS Code plugins

   No more “every tool interprets the project differently.”

3. Database stability

   The schema becomes unbreakable. No more random fields appearing.

4. Faster builds

   Less prompting. Fewer corrections. More execution.

5. Reduced anxiety

   You stop guessing whether your AI “got it.”

This is how beginners quietly level up to intermediate builders fast.

How To Build a PRD with AI (Quick Guide)

You don’t need to manually draft it.

Just say:

1. “Help me create a PRD.”

2. Explain the project in 4–6 lines.

3. List features.

4. Specify the tech stack.

5. Add preferences (design, deployment, constraints).

6. Insert the 95% confidence follow-up question prompt.

7. Answer whatever it asks.

8. Save the final PRD.

9. Feed it to any AI tool before generating code.

This one flow eliminates 80% of typical AI coding problems instantly.

The Bottom Line

Vibe coding is great for getting started.

But structure is what lets you finish.

A PRD doesn’t slow you down.

It sets the direction so your AI tools stop wandering.

If you want consistency, speed, and clean outputs from any AI co-pilot:

This is the foundation.

And you don’t need to be a senior developer to use it.

Just intentional enough to tell the AI:

“Here’s what we’re building. Now build it well.”

That’s all for now.

And if this helped you reply and tell me your next build, I might break down the PRD in a future issue.

See you in the next one.

Manas 🥂

Founder, Codexai

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