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Vibe Coding with Structure and Style: How to Build Quality Software with AI - Even If You've Never Written a Line of Code
People are creating real software by talking to AI.
Tools that run their businesses. Systems that serve their clients. Applications that solve problems no off-the-shelf product addresses. They're doing it without writing code, without computer science degrees, without years of study.
But most of them hit a wall.
The first project works. The second gets messy. By the third, they're drowning in conversations that contradict each other, features that break other features, and AI that seems to have forgotten everything they told it yesterday.
This book shows you how to avoid that wall entirely - and then takes you somewhere most vibe coding books don't even know exists.
Structure that
You'll learn to run AI-assisted projects the way professional development firms run software engagements. The documentation that keeps complex projects coherent across dozens of conversations - from executive brief through business requirements, technical specification, and work breakdown structure.
The
Real systems need both AI and classical computing. AI handles judgement - interpreting intent, assessing context, making qualitative calls. Classical code handles precision - calculations, database queries, rule enforcement. The skill is knowing which tool handles what, and designing the hand-offs between them. You'll learn to weave AI and classical computing when each should take the lead, how to validate at the boundaries, what to do when AI gets it wrong.
Beyond
Here's what makes this book different. Traditional software can only do what reduces to precise rules - calculations, look-ups, if-then logic. It has never been able to handle the "it depends": contextual judgement, qualitative assessment, weighing competing considerations. That's why customer service still needs humans, why strategic decisions can't be automated, why software routes the hard questions to human queues.
AI changes that boundary. And this book teaches you to build on the new territory.
You'll learn Essential Dimensions Analysis (EDA) - a framework for decomposing any qualitative situation into three fundamental Energy (what drives it), Logic (what it is), and Control (what constrains it). You'll encode this framework into what the book calls structured natural language specifications that the AI executes directly. Not code. Not chat. Something new - approaches designed specifically for capabilities that didn't exist before AI.
The book culminates in a complete decision support system that analyses contract disputes, strategic decisions, customer complaints, hiring choices - any situation where judgement matters. Software that doesn't just calculate. Software that thinks.
This book is
Business owners who want to build internal tools that lastConsultants creating systems for clientsEntrepreneurs with ideas but no technical co-founderAnyone who has tried vibe coding and watched their project collapseDevelopers curious about the frontier where code meets judgementWhat this book is
This isn't a collection of prompts that will be obsolete next month. It's not a beginner tutorial that leaves you copying code you don't understand. It's a book about how to think - about software projects, about AI's capabilities, about the new kinds of systems that are suddenly possible.
The tools will change. The thinking endures.
Tools that run their businesses. Systems that serve their clients. Applications that solve problems no off-the-shelf product addresses. They're doing it without writing code, without computer science degrees, without years of study.
But most of them hit a wall.
The first project works. The second gets messy. By the third, they're drowning in conversations that contradict each other, features that break other features, and AI that seems to have forgotten everything they told it yesterday.
This book shows you how to avoid that wall entirely - and then takes you somewhere most vibe coding books don't even know exists.
Structure that
You'll learn to run AI-assisted projects the way professional development firms run software engagements. The documentation that keeps complex projects coherent across dozens of conversations - from executive brief through business requirements, technical specification, and work breakdown structure.
The
Real systems need both AI and classical computing. AI handles judgement - interpreting intent, assessing context, making qualitative calls. Classical code handles precision - calculations, database queries, rule enforcement. The skill is knowing which tool handles what, and designing the hand-offs between them. You'll learn to weave AI and classical computing when each should take the lead, how to validate at the boundaries, what to do when AI gets it wrong.
Beyond
Here's what makes this book different. Traditional software can only do what reduces to precise rules - calculations, look-ups, if-then logic. It has never been able to handle the "it depends": contextual judgement, qualitative assessment, weighing competing considerations. That's why customer service still needs humans, why strategic decisions can't be automated, why software routes the hard questions to human queues.
AI changes that boundary. And this book teaches you to build on the new territory.
You'll learn Essential Dimensions Analysis (EDA) - a framework for decomposing any qualitative situation into three fundamental Energy (what drives it), Logic (what it is), and Control (what constrains it). You'll encode this framework into what the book calls structured natural language specifications that the AI executes directly. Not code. Not chat. Something new - approaches designed specifically for capabilities that didn't exist before AI.
The book culminates in a complete decision support system that analyses contract disputes, strategic decisions, customer complaints, hiring choices - any situation where judgement matters. Software that doesn't just calculate. Software that thinks.
This book is
Business owners who want to build internal tools that lastConsultants creating systems for clientsEntrepreneurs with ideas but no technical co-founderAnyone who has tried vibe coding and watched their project collapseDevelopers curious about the frontier where code meets judgementWhat this book is
This isn't a collection of prompts that will be obsolete next month. It's not a beginner tutorial that leaves you copying code you don't understand. It's a book about how to think - about software projects, about AI's capabilities, about the new kinds of systems that are suddenly possible.
The tools will change. The thinking endures.
535 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 15, 2025
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