Notes on vibe coding, software architecture, and shipping prompt-built apps that survive real traffic. Written by the people building Arketo.
Your AI assistant shipped a working app, but nobody looked at its architecture. How to find the bottleneck, the missing auth boundary and the single point of failure before production finds them for you.
Ten checks that separate a working demo from a production-ready app. Every one is a real failure we've seen in prompt-built apps, and none takes more than an afternoon to verify.
MCP is the open standard that lets AI assistants use tools, including tools on someone else's server. A plain-language explanation of how it works and why it took over.
The four security holes we keep finding in AI-built apps, why assistants produce them, and how to check your own app before someone else does it for you.
AI assistants write code that works in the demo and crawls in production. Nearly every slow prompt-built app comes down to one of three patterns. Here's how to find yours.
Vibe coding means describing software in plain language and letting an AI write it. What the term actually covers, why it works, and the one place it keeps breaking.