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So you have super powers now. They call it vibe coding. Talk to a machine, get an app. GitHub is already blowing up with projects built this way. But here's the question nobody is asking. How good is it? I'm a senior architect at one of the largest software companies on the planet. I architect things, and advise teams. I also dive deep into the weeds. And I can tell you that now writing code by vibing is the easy part. The hard part is knowing what to build and why. You need to build with intent. From end to end. If you shortcut this, you end up with a mess that's harder to fix than it was to build. And when people are screaming it doesn't work, how do you support that? An AI machine built it. Vibe coding gives you the "how." But without the "what" and "why," you're just generating spaghetti faster. So here are four principles I follow on every project. I call it UDIV. U is for Use Cases: Before you write a single line, define what the app needs to do. Not how. What. If your app needs to work offline, that changes everything about how you build it. Skip this step and you'll over engineer features nobody asked for. D is for Design: Once you know the requirements, choose the patterns that fit them. This is where you draw the boundaries. How does data flow from the database to the screen? What talks to what? A good design prevents the mess before it starts. I is for Implementation: Now you write the code. But here's the key. You follow the boundaries you set in Design. No shortcuts. No "I'll fix it later." Even a great design falls apart if people ignore the layers. V is for Validation: Test it. Prove it works. If you can't test a feature without spinning up the entire app, your architecture is too tightly coupled. Automated tests catch the bugs that break old features when you add new ones. Most vibe coders skip straight to I. They talk to the machine, get code, ship it. No use cases. No design. No validation. It works until it doesn't. The machine is a tool. A powerful one. But a tool without a process is just a faster way to build the wrong thing. UDIV. Use Cases, Design, Implementation, Validation. That's the flow. Learn it. Your future self will thank you. You're welcome. 🫡 Now give me some cool apps built on XRPL.