7 Months of Vibe Coding: How One Person Can Do What Used to Require a Team

The author, a python backend developer, started vibe coding 7 months ago and has since completed over 7 projects for more than 3,000 active users. He outlines three levels of vibe coding: chatting with a model, AI in the editor, and agentic development where the AI acts as a builder. He reviews several tools: Cursor (rated 8/10, good interface but expensive limits), Claude Code (rated 9/10, best for full-cycle development but regional restrictions), Codex (rated 8/10, good for second opinion, lower limits), Antigravity by Google (rated 6/10, issues with limits and regional blocks), and Grok build by xAI (rated 7/10, good code quality but raw interface). His main stack is Claude Code plus Cursor or Grok as backup. He emphasizes the importance of instruction files: global user-level rules (e.g., CLAUDE.md) and project-level files like AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md to maintain a single source of truth. He shares his example AGENTS.md configuration for a web-app project using Astro and Node.js.