Vibe Coding / Field Manual Konrad Voss

Interactive field manual

The Vibe Coder's
Field Manual

Build real software with AI — and actually ship it.

A hands-on field manual for vibe coders: set up your AI workbench, learn where your thing really lives, handle the real jobs and launches, and build the judgment to direct the build instead of prompting blind.

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A KONRAD VOSS FIELD MANUAL The Vibe Coder's Field Manual You built it with AI. Now learn to run it. CHAT AGENT FROM CHAT TO AGENTS KONRAD VOSS

01

Direct, don't type

You brief the AI and judge what it returns. The scarce skill is knowing what should be built, and why — this book builds it.

02

See where it lives

Hosting, DNS, secrets, uptime — the invisible machinery your thing actually runs on, made concrete with live instruments.

03

Ship and keep it alive

From a safe copy to break to a real, launched product — and the judgment to handle the hacked site and the 3 a.m. page.

34chapters
30live instruments
8parts
6free to read

What's inside

From the mindset shift to a running product: set up your AI workbench, learn where your thing lives, do the real jobs, launch it, and keep it alive.

Part I · The Shift

  1. 1The Wall Is a Door
  2. 2What Vibe Coding Actually Is
  3. 3You Are the Client Now

Part II · The Workbench

  1. 4Setting Up Your AI Workbench
  2. 5Connecting the AI to Your Hosting
  3. 6A Safe Copy to Break
  4. 7How to Talk to the Robot

Part III · Where Your Thing Lives

  1. 8Servers, Hosts, and What Runs Where
  2. 9Things That Must Keep Running
  3. 10Domains, DNS, and SSL
  4. 11Secrets and Environment Variables

Part IV · Real Jobs

  1. 12Editing a Builder Site Without Fear
  2. 13The Hacked Site
  3. 14Twenty Sites, One Account
  4. 15When the Site Vanishes
  5. 16Working Under a Hard Constraint
  6. 17Moving Off a Page Builder
  7. 18Your First Custom Plugin

Part V · Launching a Product

  1. 19Your Stack Is a Country
  2. 20Build With, Not From Scratch
  3. 21Data, Logins, and Backups
  4. 22Taking Money Safely
  5. 23The Launch Checklist
  6. 24The Night It Breaks

Part VI · Systems and Business

  1. 25From One-Off Fixes to Systems
  2. 26Complex Systems for Non-Programmers
  3. 27Running a Business This Way
  4. 28The Confidence Chapter

Appendices

  1. ACommands Worth Recognising
  2. BThe Malware Cleanup Checklist
  3. CThe Site-Facts Template
  4. DThe Prompt Library
  5. EGlossary for Builders

Also by the author

  1. System Design From Scratch
Konrad Voss

Konrad Voss writes hands-on, interactive field manuals for people who build with AI. Every book is earned in production, not a lecture hall — with live instruments you operate and field notes from things that actually broke.

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