How to Keep Large Vibe-Coded Projects From Descending Into Chaos

austin_malerba · x · 2026-10-23

Responding to how people keep large vibe-coded projects from becoming a mess, Austin Malerba shares his workflow: lock UX first with Claude Design before touching the codebase, give the agent a far-reaching roadmap so abstractions anticipate future features, invest heavily in data models, vibe-code service specs/APIs before letting agents implement them, and build as much as possible pre-launch while there's no production data to worry about.

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