AI Builders: Making The Decisions That Turn AI Code Into Real Software
Leading vibe coders, non-technical founders, and other builders through the decisions that AI makes for you, unless you take control.
Every day, people build software with AI. Most of those projects fail, not because the AI wrote bad code, but because nobody made the decisions the code depended on.
Where should data live? How should users authenticate? What happens when things break? AI tools will happily answer these questions for you, silently, without telling you the options or the tradeoffs. The result: applications built on decisions you didn’t know you were making.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is AI Builders for?
AI Builders is for anyone building software with AI assistance who wants their projects to actually succeed. You might be a founder building your own product, a designer who needs to create functional prototypes, a product manager tired of waiting on engineering, or simply someone with an idea and the determination to make it real. You don’t need coding experience, but you do need to be willing to engage with technical decisions rather than hoping AI handles everything. If you’ve tried building with AI and hit walls you couldn’t explain, or if you’re about to start and want to avoid the mistakes that kill most projects, this book is for you.
How is this different from other vibe coding books?
Most books on building with AI focus on prompting: how to describe what you want so AI generates code. This book focuses on deciding: the architectural choices, tradeoffs, and technical decisions that determine whether your project survives past the first week. AI can write code, but it can’t decide where your data should live, how authentication should work, or what happens when things break in production. Those silent decisions are why most AI-built projects fail. AI Builders gives you a methodology for making those decisions yourself, keeping you in control while AI handles implementation.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. The book assumes no prior programming experience. You will learn to read code, understand what it does, and evaluate whether it’s doing the right thing, but you won’t need to write code from scratch. What you do need is willingness to engage with technical concepts. This isn’t a “no-code” book that hides complexity from you. It’s a book that helps you understand the decisions that matter, ask the right questions, and make informed choices. By the end, you’ll have built a real, deployed, production-ready application.
Is this just theoretical knowledge?
No! Throughout the book, you’ll follow TaskFlow, a team task management application, from initial idea through production deployment and ongoing operations. TaskFlow isn’t a toy example; it’s a complete application with user authentication, team collaboration, data persistence, and proper security. More importantly, you’ll learn the methodology behind every decision, so you can apply the same approach to whatever you want to build next. The goal isn’t just to complete TaskFlow; it’s to develop the discernment to build software that lasts.